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Definition of Acquittals
1. acquittal [n] - See also: acquittal
Lexicographical Neighbors of Acquittals
Literary usage of Acquittals
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke, Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress), John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) (1825)
"RETURN OF COMMITTALS, CONVICTIONS, AND Acquittals. Number of Persons committed,
convicted, sentenced to death, and acquitted, in England and Wales, ..."
2. The Imperial Gazetteer of India. by William Wilson Hunter, Great Britain India Office (1908)
"... appeals which the Local Government may prefer against acquittals, and confirms,
modifies, or annuls all sentences of death passed by Sessions Courts. ..."
3. A History of the French Revolution by Henry Morse Stephens (1891)
"... history—Judges and jurors—Fouquier-Tinville —The procedure of the tribunal—Early
trials and acquittals—The trials and executions of Marie Antoinette and ..."
4. A Treatise on Medical Jurisprudence by Francis Wharton, Moreton Stillé (1860)
"Injury to the community from the want of secondary punishments, the result being
acquittals of dangerous parties, from unwillingness to see the severer ..."
5. American Almanac and Repository of Useful Knowledge edited by Jared Sparks, Johann Schobert, Francis Bowen, George Partridge Sanger (1856)
"... 452 convictions, 288 acquittals, and that 337 were nol. pros'd. In eight
counties there was no prosecution for crime. Two convicta were executed. ..."
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