legal guilt

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• Guilt — Guilty redirects here. For other uses, see Guilty (disambiguation). Guilt is the state of being responsible for the commission of an offense.[1] It is also a cognitive or an emotional experience that occurs when a person realizes or believes… …   Wikipedia

• guilt — n [Old English gylt delinquency]: the fact of having committed an offense esp. against the law not enough evidence to establish guilt compare innocence Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996 …   Law dictionary

• guilt — [ gılt ] noun uncount ** 1. ) a feeling of being ashamed and sorry because you have done something wrong: Instead of satisfaction she felt only guilt. twinge/pang of guilt: She felt a sudden twinge of guilt. guilt about/at/for/over: I often felt… …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• Guilt — (g[i^]lt), n. [OE. gilt, gult, AS. gylt, crime; probably originally signifying, the fine or mulct paid for an offence, and afterward the offense itself, and akin to AS. gieldan to pay, E. yield. See {Yield}, v. t.] 1. The criminality and… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Legal psychology — involves empirical, psychological research of the law, legal institutions, and people who come into contact with the law. Legal psychologists typically take basic social and cognitive theories and principles and apply them to issues in the legal… …   Wikipedia

• guilt — [gilt] n. [ME gilt < OE gylt, a sin, offense] 1. the state of having done a wrong or committed an offense; culpability, legal or ethical 2. a painful feeling of self reproach resulting from a belief that one has done something wrong or immoral …   English World dictionary

• guilt-free — index blameless, not guilty Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

• Legal burden of proof — This article is about the burden of proof in law. For other uses, see Burden of proof (disambiguation). The burden of proof (Latin: onus probandi) is the obligation to shift the accepted conclusion away from an oppositional opinion to one s own… …   Wikipedia

• Legal system of Saudi Arabia — Saudi Arabia This article is part of the series: Politics and government of Saudi Arabia …   Wikipedia

• guilt */*/ — UK [ɡɪlt] / US noun [uncountable] 1) a feeling of being ashamed and sorry because you have done something wrong Instead of satisfaction she felt only guilt. guilt about/at/for/over: I often felt swamped by guilt at having left my children.… …   English dictionary

• guilt — The modern senses of this word are either the legal concept which arises from someone s having infringed a law; or the feeling of remorse and culpability which may not have anything to do with a legal or even social transgression. But in the… …   Dictionary of the Bible