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/mˈɪtəgˌeɪtɪŋ sˈərkəmstˌæns/ Listen

Mitigating circumstance

noun

(law) a circumstance that does not exonerate a person but which reduces the penalty associated with the offense.

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"Mitigating circumstance" Quotes from Famous Books

... Meenning, who had saved his life from assassins in the attack on the palace. Kiaking died on September 2, 1820, in the sixty-first year of his age, leaving to his successor a diminished authority, an enfeebled power, and a discontented people. Some mitigating circumstance may generally be pleaded against the adverse verdict of history in its estimation of a public character. The difficulties with which the individual had to contend may have been exceptional and unexpected, the measures which he adopted ...

— China • Demetrius Charles Boulger

... During that short time the bishop's thoughts ranged with characteristic rapidity over every aspect of the situation. Emmet as a son-in-law! First of all, the fact that he was the mayor of Warwick, a fact which the bishop had hitherto belittled, now presented itself as a mitigating circumstance. Then the thought that he was a Catholic followed immediately, to suggest complications and humiliations which the bishop's large experience enabled him to see with fatal distinctness. What was the man's paltry office ...

— The Mayor of Warwick • Herbert M. Hopkins

... dangerous type, the head of a gang known to be concerned in gold stealing and burglary as a profession. The penalty was regarded by all parties as most inadequate and the judge himself commented adversely upon the drafting of the law which tended to screen the prisoner. Not one mitigating circumstance was forthcoming! And yet, whilst ignoring a fresh outburst of protest against the detention of Messrs. Sampson and Davies, and whilst the Industrial Commission was exposing the gold thefts and denouncing the complicity of the police, Mr. Kruger ...

— The Transvaal from Within - A Private Record of Public Affairs • J. P. Fitzpatrick

... several attempts to bolt the offending lozenge, and turning scarlet meanwhile with confusion and coughing, stammered huskily something to the effect that he had "bought the lozenges at a chemist's," which he seemed to consider, for some reason, a mitigating circumstance. ...

— Vice Versa - or A Lesson to Fathers • F. Anstey

Words linked to "Mitigating circumstance" : jurisprudence, law, consideration, condition, circumstance