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Compensatio Criminis

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

Lat. (Setoff of crime or guilt.) In practice. The plea of recrimination in a suit for a divorce; that is, that the complainant is guilty of the same kind of offence with which he or she charges the defendant.

Shelford, Mart, ik Div. 440. 2 Kent's Cam. 100.

See Becrimination.

See Becrimination.