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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.