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Definition of Excusal
1. an acceptance of an excuse [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Excusal
Literary usage of Excusal
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Manual for Overseers, Assistant Overseers, Collectors of Poor Rates, and by Sir Hugh Owen, Hugh Owen (1884)
"excusal of Poor Rate on the ground of Poverty. Two or more justices of the peace
in petty sessions on application made to them by any person rated to any ..."
2. Juries and Jury Trials in Civil and Criminal Cases: Illinois by John Abraham MacNeil (1921)
"excusal of Juror It is improper for counsel to say to jury that the other side
had excused a juror because the excused juror had employed deceased, ..."
3. Registration Cases: Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of by Great Britain Court of Common Pleas, Francis Joseph Coltman, Charles Henry Hopwood, Great Britain, Court of Common Pleas, Great Britain High court of justice (1873)
"Lee, where indeed no question was raised as to the validity of the excusal, though
it was said the excusal was too late for the purpose of the franchise. ..."
4. Registration Cases: Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of by Charles Henry Hopwood, Francis Joseph Coltman, Great Britain Court of Common Pleas (1873)
"There is, therefore, it is submitted, no valid excusal, and the overseers ...
Lee, where indeed no question was raised as to the validity of the excusal, ..."
5. Rogers on Elections by Francis James Newman Rogers, Maurice Powell, Samuel Henry Day (1897)
"If they have not, he is not so entitled, and his excusal from payment will not
entitle him, whether such excusal be made before or within the qualifying ..."
6. The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick (1901)
"The most striking part of this divergence consists generally in the approval or
excusal of practices disapproved by the current morality: as (eg) licence ..."
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