Innocence

Legal Definition and Related Resources of Innocence

Meaning of Innocence

The absence of guilt (g. v.).

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Synonyms of Innocence

noun

  • absence of guilt
  • blamelessness
  • exculpation
  • exoneration
  • freedom from blame
  • freedom from guilt
  • freedom from illegality
  • guiltlessness
  • incorruption
  • innocency
  • innocentia
  • integritas
  • sinlessness Associated Concepts: presumption of innocence foreign phrases: Omnis indemnatus pro innoxis legibus habetur
  • Every uncondemned person is regarded by the law as innocent
  • Quisquís praesumitur bonus; et semper in dubiispro reo respondendum
  • Everyone is presumed to be good; and in doubtful cases it should be resolved in favor of the accused
  • In favorem vitae
  • libertatis
  • et innocentiae
  • omnia praesumuntur
  • Every presumption is made in favor of life
  • liberty and innocence

Grammar

This term is a noun.

Etimology of Innocence

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

mid-14c., “freedom from guilt or moral wrong,” from Old French inocence “innocence; purity, chastity” (12c., Modern French innocence), from Latin innocentia “blamelessness, uprightness, integrity,” from innocens “harmless; blameless; disinterested” (see innocent). Meaning “lacking in guile or artifice,” as of childhood, is from late 14c. Meaning “freedom from legal wrong” is from 1550s.


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