ACQUITTAL
Categories: Criminal Law
Definition (1910 Edition)
the debt has been satisfled. Reg. Writs, 158; Cowell; Blount.
acquitted by the jury but by the judgment of the court. Burgess v. Boetefeur, 7 Man. & G. 481, 504: People v. Lyman, 53 App. Div. 470, 65 N. Y. Supp. 1062. And he may be legally acquitted by a judgment rendered otherwise than in pursuance of a verdict, as where he is discharged by a magistrate because of the insufficiency of the evidence, or the indictment is dismissed by the court or a nol. pros. entered.
acquitted by the jury but by the judgment of the court. Burgess v. Boetefeur, 7 Man. & G. 481, 504: People v. Lyman, 53 App. Div. 470, 65 N. Y. Supp. 1062. And he may be legally acquitted by a judgment rendered otherwise than in pursuance of a verdict, as where he is discharged by a magistrate because of the insufficiency of the evidence, or the indictment is dismissed by the court or a nol. pros. entered.
Source: Black's Law Dictionary, 2nd Edition (1910) — Public Domain.
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