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exculpation|ɛkskʌlˈpeɪʃən|
[f. prec. vb.: see -ation.]
The action of exculpating or clearing from blame, or from an alleged crime; an instance of this; a ground or means of exculpating; an excuse or a vindication.
a1715Burnet Own Time an. 1684 (R.) In Scotland the law allows of an exculpation, by which the prisoner is suffered before his trial to prove the thing to be impossible. 1751Smollett Per. Pic. (1779) I. xviii. 159 She maintained a sort of ceremonious distance, which she thought requisite..for her own exculpation. 1752J. Louthian Form of Process (ed. 2) 100 To bear..Witnessing.. anent the said Complainer's Innocence and Exculpation of the Crime libelled against him. 1788Reid Act. Powers iv. vi. 619 The madness of a short fit of passion..is incapable of proof; and therefore is not admitted in human tribunals as an exculpation. 1828Scott F. M. Perth xxx, Ramorny did not attempt an exculpation. 1873Symonds Grk. Poets viii. 238 Without seeking to offer any exculpation for what offends us in the moral sensibilities of the Greeks.
b. letters of exculpation (in Sc. Law): a warrant issued to a defender in a criminal prosecution for citing witnesses in his defence.
1773Erskine Instit. Law Scotl. (1838) iv. v. 1123 Letters of exculpation are granted of course, at the suit of a defender in a criminal trial, for citing witnesses, etc. 1861in W. Bell Dict. Law Scotl. 354/2. |