voluntariness
71criminal capacity — Accountability for committing crime; e.g., child under 7 years of age lacks criminal capacity. Application of Gault, 387 U.S. 1, 87 S.Ct. 1428, 1438, 18 L.Ed.2d 527. + Legal qualifications necessary to commit a crime such as voluntariness of the… …
72confession — A voluntary statement made by a person charged with the commission of a crime or misdemeanor, communicated to another person, wherein he acknowledges himself to be guilty of the offense charged, and discloses the circumstances of the act or the… …
73oral — Uttered by the mouth or in words; spoken, not written @ oral argument Presentation of reasons for affirmance, reversal, modification, etc. by appellee and appellant before appellate court; generally limited in time by court rule; e.g. Fed.R.App.P …
74involuntary deviation — A deviation by a ship from the voyage, neither planned nor necessarily anticipated upon leaving port. If the circumstances under which a ship leaves port are such that it must be known that she will be compelled to deviate from her voyage, as,… …
75voluntary — adj. & n. adj. 1 done, acting, or able to act of one s own free will; not constrained or compulsory, intentional (a voluntary gift). 2 unpaid (voluntary work). 3 (of an institution) supported by voluntary contributions. 4 Brit. (of a school)… …
76vol|un|tar|i|ness — «VOL uhn TEHR ee nihs», noun. the quality or state of being voluntary: »They assumed that socialism would bring…a new attitude toward work, which would become a matter of joy and voluntariness (Wall Street Journal) …
