| 单词 | miscarriage of justice |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmiscarriage of justice c. More fully miscarriage of justice. A failure of a court or judicial system to attain the ends of justice. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > [noun] > failure of miscarriage1648 1648 Moderate Intelligencer No. 195. 1777 The Law allows both Plaintiffe and Defendant a power to question the jury upon a palpable miscarriage. 1862 R. Williams in Littell's Living Age 6 Dec. 443/2 With no great discourtesy, the miscarriage of justice. 1865 Sat. Rev. 25 Feb. 217/2 Having been jockeyed into a miscarriage of justice. 1875 Act 38 & 39 Vict. c. 77 Order xxxix Unless in the opinion of the Court..some substantial wrong or miscarriage has been..occasioned in the trial of action. 1891 Daily News 5 Feb. 7/1 It was submitted..to their lordships that there had been a miscarriage, and that the order of reference should be revoked. 1904 ‘S. G. Tallentyre’ Life Voltaire II. xl. 234 Each..turned on some miscarriage of civil justice the searchlight of truth. 1941 ‘G. Orwell’ Lion & Unicorn ii. ii. 23 Letters to the papers from eminent Marxist professors, pointing out that this or that is a ‘miscarriage of British justice’. 1987 Bella 14 Dec. 37/4 She..persuaded Justice, an organisation of lawyers who examine miscarriages of justice, to take up the case. 1998 New Yorker 26 Jan. 27/2 This was another example of the miscarriage of this star-chamber process. < as lemmas |
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