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RESPITE (O. Fr. respit, modern repit, Lat. respectus, regard, consideration, respicere, to look back at)

This article appears in Volume V23, Page 200 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: RAY-RHU
RESPITE (O. Fr. respit, modern repit, Lat. respectus, regard, consideration, respicere, to look back at) , properly a delay, given for the further consideration of some matter, hence
relief
 . In law the
term
  is used of the postponement of the immediate execution of the law in criminal cases, e.g. by binding a convicted prisoner over to come up for
judgment
  when called upon, or when a
case
  is " respited" from one
quarter
  sessions to another. The word is loosely used in the sense of a "
reprieve
  " (q.v.).


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