Pardon
Ballentine's Law Dictionary · James A. Ballentine · 1916
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
An act of grace proceeding from the power intrusted with the execution of the laws, which exempts the individual on whom it is bestowed from the punishment the law inflicts for a crime he has committed.
See 7 Pet. (U. S.) 150, 8 L. Ed. 640.