| 单词 | to stand upon one's deliverance |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto stand upon (also at, on) one's deliverance ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > judging > acquittal or clearing of accusation > [noun] quittance1426 acquittance1430 acquittal1434 deliverance1485 absolution1569 quittala1634 acquitment1644 acclearmenta1670 1485–6 W. Caxton tr. Laurent Ryal Bk. lxxi. sig. hijv They desyre the deth..lyke as the prysonner desyreth good delyueraunce. 1583 Sir T. Smith's De Republica Anglorum ii. xxiii. 76 [Form of proclamation in court when no indictment is produced] A. B. prisoner standeth heere at the barre, if any man can say anything against him, let him now speake, for the prisoner standeth at his deliueraunce; if no man doe then come, hee is deliuered without any further proces or trouble. [In Budden's Latin transl. 1610: nam vinctus liberationem expectat, si nemo eum tum incusaverit, in libertatem pristinam asseritur.] 1660 Exact Accompt Trial Regicides 35 For now the Prisoner [Col. Harrison] stands at the Bar upon his Deliverance. 1758 Genuine Acct. Proc. Trial F. Hensey 63 Look on the Prisoner at the Bar, who now stands on his Deliverance. 1865 Morning Post 16 Nov. 7/3 I have now to ask that the proclamation should be put upon the record, after the jury are sworn, that the prisoner stands on her deliverance. 1909 Derby Daily Tel. 22 Nov. The usher of the Court, who in swearing the jury remarked that ‘the prisoners now stand upon their deliverance’. < as lemmas |
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