#legal pardon
- To amnesty — To grant amnesty; to clear, through an official legal act or a legislative decree, the criminal liability, legal consequences, and penalties applied to persons who committed certain offenses. In an extended structural sense, the term reflects a collective or individual pardon granted by the supreme authority of a state, symbolically erasing guilt for political or social reconciliation.
- Amnesty — A legal act of clemency adopted by the supreme legislative power through which criminal liability is removed for certain offenses committed prior to its publication. This structural mechanism causes the termination of criminal action, the cancellation of sentences already pronounced, and the automatic erasure of convictions from the criminal record, acting as a legal oblivion of the deed to achieve social or political stability.
- To amnesty — To grant amnesty to a person or a group of persons; to remove through a legal act of the legislative power the criminal liability for a committed offense, the consequences of the conviction, or the execution of the sentence. This public act of clemency symbolically and legally erases the criminal record for the targeted acts, restoring the person's prior rights.
- Amnestiable — Fulfilling the legal conditions to benefit from an amnesty; a person, act, or sentence that falls within the criteria established by a clemency law adopted by Parliament. In a procedural context, it describes criminal elements susceptible to being annulled or erased through the direct effect of amnesty.
- Amnestied — Having benefited from an act of amnesty; a person officially exonerated from criminal liability or from executing a sentence through a clemency law. In an adjectival sense, it describes the legal status of a criminal act or a convict whose record has been erased through the direct effect of a sovereign legislative act.
- To amnesty — An archaic, historical, or regional variant of the verb 'to amnesty'; to grant amnesty to a person or a collective of convicts by the decision of a sovereign authority. Used predominantly in old legal or administrative language from past centuries, the term defines the official act by which the sentences or criminal liabilities of subjects were erased.