How To Use Lenity In A Sentence
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The opposite of secret laws is openly specified, written down laws, and a strong form of that, which subsumes e.g. the rule of lenity and the prohibition on ambiguous criminal laws, is something like: nobody should be convicted of a crime unless it was unambiguously written in a law, which they could (at least in theory) read, that their behavior was criminal.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Debating Textualism
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But as Demeo told him, tu illum corrumpi sinis, your lenity will be his undoing, praevidere videor jam diem, illum, quum hic egens profugiet aliquo militatum, I foresee his ruin.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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Nor did the Romans indeed take away their power of judging in capital matters, but they, by their own oscitancy, supine and unreasonable lenity, lost it themselves.
From the Talmud and Hebraica
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The very purpose of the rule of lenity, in my view, is to ensure that courts will not take standard legal terminology and novelly re-interpret it to make criminal conduct which has never been regarded as a crime in any jurisdiction.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Demanding Settlement for Clearly Baseless Lawsuit = Criminal Extortion:
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This lenity of the King gave great um - brage to the Omrahs of Chilligi, who addrefled him tipon the occafion, and advifed him to purfue the policy of Balin, who never 'pardoned a traitor.
The history of Hindostan:
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The opposite of secret laws is openly specified, written down laws, and a strong form of that, which subsumes e.g. the rule of lenity and the prohibition on ambiguous criminal laws, is something like: nobody should be convicted of a crime unless it was unambiguously written in a law, which they could at least in theory read, that their behavior was criminal.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Debating Textualism
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The colored teachers who present themselves are examined with a great deal of "lenity," -- and some who cannot even spell, are placed in charge of the young.
A North-Side View of Slavery. The Refugee: or the Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada. Related by Themselves, with an Account of the History and Condition of the Colored Population of Upper Canada
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But as Demeo told him, tu illum corrumpi sinis, your lenity will be his undoing, praevidere videor jam diem, illum, quum hic egens profugiet aliquo militatum, I foresee his ruin.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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186 Theodemir and his subjects were treated with uncommon lenity; but the rate of tribute appears to have fluctuated from a tenth to a fifth, according to the submission or obstinacy of the Christians.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Justice Ginsburg rightly described this as overbroad, and she cited Court precedent that "ambiguity concerning the ambit of criminal statutes should be resolved in favor of lenity.
Conrad Black's Revenge
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Henry has been called a backslider because of the lenity of his counsels, but I cannot but think it is the Spirit of Christ that influences him.
The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Director's Favorite Line: "When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentler gamester is the soonest winner.
Five Acts in the Summer of the Bard
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And here I must observe, that the Americans can no longer anticipate lenity from the English traveller, as latterly they have so deeply committed themselves.
Diary in America, Series One
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He is a rob - ber of the vileft fpecies, who degrades humanity, and dishonours the dignity and equity of executive juftice in a free government, by a condud fo lawlefs and barbarous; who thus ihuts up the avenoea of lenity, and fteals from the poor fettler in the colony, the hard earned fruits of induftry.
The Monthly Review
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The costume of the East certainly does not exaggerate the fatal progress of time; if a figure becomes too portly, the flowing robe conceals the incumbrance which is aggravated by a western dress; he, too, who wears a turban has little dread of grey hairs; a grizzly beard indeed has few charms, but whether it were the lenity of time or the skill of his barber in those arts in which Asia is as experienced as Europe, the beard of the master of the divan became the rest of his appearance, and flowed to his waist in rich dark curls, lending additional dignity to a countenance of which the expression was at the same time grand and benignant.
Tancred Or, The New Crusade
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The man who was in the last degree amiable was to the last degree unyielding where conscience was concerned; the soul which was so tender had no weakness in it; his lenity was the divination of a finer justice.
Literary Friends and Acquaintance; a Personal Retrospect of American Authorship
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It is even good policy to treat prisoners with the greatest lenity which is consistent with their safe-keeping.
The Lectures, Corrected and Improved, which Have Been Delivered for a Series of Years in the ...
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Despite the conclusions of other courts, the district court determined that, given those statutory construction arguments and the rule of lenity (since the CFAA is also a criminal statute), “authorization” is not exceeded just because the employee breaches her duty of loyalty to an employer.
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