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Guilt

Legal Definition and Related Resources of Guilt

Meaning of Guilt

In criminal law. That which renders criminal and liable to punishment. That disposition to violate the law which has manifested itself by some act already done. The opposite of innocence. See Rutherforth, Inst. bk. 1, c. 18, § 10.

Translate Motion to Adjudicate Guilt from English to Spanish

Translation of Motion to Adjudicate Guilt, with examples. More about free online translation into Spanish of Pedimento para adjudicar culpabilidad and other legal terms is available here.

Translate Finding of Guilt from English to Spanish

Translation of Finding of Guilt , with examples. More about free online translation into Spanish of Fallo de culpabilidad and other legal terms is available here.

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Synonyms of Guilt

noun

  • blame
  • blameworthiness
  • breach of law
  • censurability
  • corruption
  • crime
  • criminal activity
  • criminal deed
  • criminal offense
  • criminality
  • criminousness
  • culpa
  • culpability
  • delict
  • delinquency
  • deviation from rectitude
  • dishonesty
  • fault
  • felonious conduct
  • ill conduct
  • immorality
  • impeachability
  • improbity
  • improper conduct
  • iniquity
  • lawbreaking
  • malefaction
  • malfeasance
  • malpractice
  • malversation
  • misbehavior
  • misconduct
  • misdeed
  • misdemeanor
  • misdoing
  • misfeasance
  • misprision
  • noxia
  • offense
  • offense against the law
  • offensiveness
  • official misconduct
  • peccadillo
  • peccancy
  • reprehensibility
  • reproach
  • sin
  • sinfulness
  • transgression
  • turpitude
  • unlawful practice
  • unrighteousness
  • vice
  • viciousness
  • violation
  • violation of law
  • vitium
  • wrong
  • wrongdoing
  • Associated Concepts: admission of guilt
  • finding of guilt
  • guilt beyond a reasonable doubt
  • guilt by association
  • nolo contendre
  • presumption of innocense foreign phrases: Cum par delictum est duorum
  • semper oneraturpetitoretmeliorhabeturpossessoris causa
  • When there is equal fault on both sides
  • the burden is always placed on the plaintiff
  • and the cause of the possessor is preferred
  • Quae sunt minoris culpae sunt majoris infamiae
  • Poenae suos tenere debet actores et non alios
  • Punishment belongs to the guilty
  • and not others
  • Excusat aut extenuat delictum in capitalibus quod non operatur idem in civilibus
  • That excuses or extenuates a wrong in capital cases which would not have the same effect in civil suits
  • That excuses or extenuates a wrong in capital cases which would not have the same effect in civil suits

English Spanish Translation of Guilt

Culpa

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Grammar

This term is a noun.

Etimology of Guilt

(You may find guilt at the world legal encyclopedia and the etimology of more terms).

Old English gylt “crime, sin, moral defect, failure of duty,” of unknown origin, though some suspect a connection to Old English gieldan “to pay for, debt,” but the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) editors find this “inadmissible phonologically.” The -u- is an unetymological insertion. In law, “That state of a moral agent which results from his commission of a crime or an offense wilfully or by consent” [Century Dictionary], from early 14c. Then use for “sense of guilt,” considered erroneous by purists, is first recorded 1680s. Guilt by association recorded by 1919. mid-15c., “act or process of testing, a putting to proof by examination, experiment, etc.,” from Anglo-French trial, noun formed from triet “to try” (see try (verb)). Sense of “examining and deciding of the issues between parties in a court of law” is first recorded 1570s; extended to any ordeal by 1590s. As an adjectival phrase, trial-and-error is recorded from 1806. Trial balloon (1826) translates French ballon d’essai, a small balloon sent up immediately before a manned ascent to determine the direction and tendency of winds in the upper air, though the earliest use in English is figurative.

Guilt

What is Guilt?

A definition of guilt is: In criminal law, that quality which imparts criminality to a motive or act, and renders the person amenable to punishment by the law. More details on the Encyclopedia. Responsibility for offense. More details on the Encyclopedia. That disposition to violate the law which has manifested itself by some
act already done. More details on the Encyclopedia. The opposite of innocence.[1]

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  1. “Guilt” in the White America Dictionary (New York, Los Angeles, London, New Delhy, Hong Kong, 1989)

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