Acquittal
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Acquital.
A judicial deliverance from an accusation of guilt; a deliverance or setting free from a cnminal charge by the process of a trial at law, and the verdict of a jury, pronouncmg the party not guilty.* 4 Bl Com. 361.
1 Nev. <t Man. 36.
See Acquietatus. Exemption from entry and molestation by a superior lord, for services issuing out of lands.
Co. Litt. 100 a, Cowell.
See Acguietantia.
See Acguietantia.