(n.) The clearing off of debt or obligation; a release or discharge from debt or other liability.
(n.) A writing which is evidence of a discharge; a receipt in full, which bars a further demand.
(v. t.) To acquit.
Example Sentences:
(1) He said that some voters would see Monday's acquittal as a positive step in the reforms recently enacted by the prime minister, Najib Razak.
(2) Because of multiple effusions of blood of variable age located at the child's body the stepmother was noticed and accused of assault and battery, but the trial ended in acquittal.
(3) Noye claimed the way the press had reported his acquittal in the Fordham case was "absolutely scandalous".
(4) Speaking outside Southwark crown court minutes after the acquittal by the eight-man, four-woman jury, Redknapp said he and his family had been through a "nightmare" as they waited for justice.
(5) After winning stage three, he maintains his advantage until the end of the race, despite the UCI revealing it would challenge the Spaniard's domestic acquittal on doping charges.
(6) Today's verdict ‑ the striking-off of Wakefield and Prof John Walker-Smith, who was in charge of the department of paediatric gastroenterology at the Royal Free hospital in London, where the research took place and the acquittal of the-then junior consultant Simon Murch, who had doubts about the project ‑ was about ethics and honesty, not science.
(7) If the law was changed, Macpherson predicted, fresh trials after acquittal would be exceptional and appropriate safeguards would be essential.
(8) Announcing that the acquittal on 1 November was erroneous, the Athens public prosecutor's office said the journalist should be retried by a higher misdemeanour court on the same charges.
(9) The appeal judges concluded that there was "sufficient reliable and substantial new evidence to justify the quashing of the acquittal and to order a new trial".
(10) "These writers keep getting tried, and we keep getting acquittals."
(11) Many will have been surprised by the officer's acquittal yesterday after a district judge concluded that the prosecution had failed to prove that he had not acted in "lawful self-defence."
(12) Yet not one had raised similar concerns about the acquittal of Nicholas Jacobs on a charge of murdering PC Keith Blakelock at Broadwater Farm the previous day ( Report , 10 April).
(13) The verdict is above all a triumph of state power, exemplified by the acquittal of the interior ministry's main commanders who oversaw police actions during the revolution.
(14) It is not uncommon for illiberal – in this case, deeply authoritarian – regimes to use a security threat (whether real, imagined, or self-created) as a pretext for singling out alleged ‘traitors’ and cracking down on civil society and individual critics.” Lawyer Khalid Bagirov, who is acting on behalf of all four activists, said the arrests are politically motivated, and added that their acquittal is nigh on “impossible”.
(15) The radical Islamist preacher Abu Qatada will not be able to return to Britain despite his surprise acquittal by the Jordanian state security court on terrorism conspiracy charges.
(16) He said the "adversarial nature of our criminal trial system in this country is designed to test the evidence given by witnesses; be they for the prosecution or defence so as to ensure safe conviction and acquittal of the innocent".
(17) "We were innocent when the Kremlin locked us up: it was not amnesty that we expected from Putin; we demand acquittal," she told the Guardian.
(18) If white Americans need black villains to feel superior in their decline as 2015 closes – and as the leading demagogue Republican candidate for president can confirm, they do – then innocent victims like Tamir will continue to be killed, and those who do so will be rewarded with acquittal, fame or even promotion .
(19) Rees, a convicted criminal, attacked the police's conduct after his acquittal claiming they had ignored 40 other suspects and added: "One disgraceful aspect is that senior police purported to take seriously people with mental health problems and career criminals merely trying to benefit themselves."
(20) They conclude that dismissal based on incompetence to stand trial became a substitute for acquittal based on the insanity plea under mens rea.
Receipt
Definition:
(n.) The act of receiving; reception.
(n.) Reception, as an act of hospitality.
(n.) Capability of receiving; capacity.
(n.) Place of receiving.
(n.) Hence, a recess; a retired place.
(n.) A formulary according to the directions of which things are to be taken or combined; a recipe; as, a receipt for making sponge cake.
(n.) A writing acknowledging the taking or receiving of goods delivered; an acknowledgment of money paid.
(n.) That which is received; that which comes in, in distinction from what is expended, paid out, sent away, and the like; -- usually in the plural; as, the receipts amounted to a thousand dollars.
(v. t.) To give a receipt for; as, to receipt goods delivered by a sheriff.
(v. t.) To put a receipt on, as by writing or stamping; as, to receipt a bill.
(v. i.) To give a receipt, as for money paid.
Example Sentences:
(1) But the wounding charge in 2010 has become Brown's creation of a structural hole in the budget, more serious than the cyclical hit which the recession made in tax receipts, at least 4% of GDP.
(2) The public finance forecasts are linked to those growth predictions, since stronger growth means healthier tax receipts and lower spending on unemployment benefit and other welfare measures.
(3) Pensioners, like those in receipt of long-term social welfare payments or those who can prove they cannot provide their heating needs during winter, are entitled to a means-tested weekly winter fuel allowance of €20 (£ 14.54) per household.
(4) The ONS said it was possible that these one-off items and a rise in tax receipts in January could bring the overall debt figure within the OBR's £80.5bn forecast.
(5) Norwich Ownership Delia Smith and her husband Michael Wynn Jones own 53.1% of the club’s shares; deputy chairman Michael Foulger owns approximately 16% Gate receipts £12m Broadcasting and media £70m Catering £4m Commercial & other income £12m Net debt Not stated; £2.7m bank overdraft, no directors’ loans.
(6) However, rights being accrued are outstripping receipts.
(7) In addition, we found that maternal receipt of magnesium sulfate was associated with diminished risk of GMH-IVH even in those babies born to mothers who apparently did not have preeclampsia.
(8) The mean time from initiation of surgery to the surgeon's receipt of the frozen section diagnosis was 0.9 hours.
(9) The survey results and the fact that 25% of the stores made changes after receipt of a letter indicate that occupational therapists can be effective advocates for accessibility and thus provide a vital link to productive living for persons in wheelchairs.
(10) The first minister insisted that Scotland had a vibrant economy, saying overall tax receipts including North Sea oil were £400 per head higher from Scotland in 2013-14 than the UK average.
(11) "When you have 54% of students in receipt of EMA, clearly that is a very widely framed benefit.
(12) Yet figures show that of the students graduating last year, there were 10,670 who had been in receipt of free school meals.
(13) It is possible in the UK to carry out a phased approach to drug development that is designed to assist in the selection of a candidate drug for development from a series of compounds; minimize the amount of animal work (toxicological and metabolic) necessary to permit early evaluation in man; introduce a more rational basis for decision making by setting criteria that must be satisfied before entry can be made into the next phase of development; obtain safety, pharmacokinetic, and possibly dynamic data in man within about 16 months of receipt of the compound.
(14) Receipt of large amounts of anti-HBS may be associated with an increased incidence of HB events.
(15) Case and noncase infants were similar with respect to other complications and to receipt of medications and parenteral nutrition.
(16) The method was able to determine subpopulations of individual cells that secreted antibody in less than fifteen hours after receipt of a conventional cell suspension.
(17) The procedure is fast enough (21 min from receipt of blood to reporting value) to be used for emergency determinations.
(18) What I've been told is that the Electoral Commission in 2009 looked at this exhaustively – as far as the receipt of that money by the Liberal Democrats from one of his companies.
(19) These receipts, known as "running cash notes", were made out in the name of the depositor and promised to pay him on demand.
(20) The public purse was helped by a 3.7% increase in tax receipts against a backdrop of economic growth and falling unemployment.