Mitigation

s Lessening the degree of; diminution as to the severity of; reduction of the amount of: as, of damages, punishment or penalty. The criteria by which the sufficiency of a pleading is ordinarily determined, that i^, materiality and relevancy, may not be strictly applied to allegations in an answer of facts by way of mitigation. Such allefrations should not be stricken out on motion, unless it is clear that under no possible circumstances could the matter pleaded have the bearing claimed for it.^

See Aggravation.