statutory exclusion
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.42 in modern English
30
Scrabble Score
18
Letters
5
Syllables
13
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The legal requirement that under specified circumstances, a juvenile be tried as an adult, without the possibility of judicial discretion.
American usage; Uncountable
noun
A situation which is not covered by a particular rule or process because of a statute.
Countable
Example Sentences
- "Statutory exclusion is clearly the most rigid method of determining how a juvenile offender will be processed, and most determinations are based on serious offenses and age limits."
- "Statutory exclusion is part of the same trend toward “get-tough” legislation that has shifted decision-making from judges to legislators and prosecutors (Feld, 2000)."
- "Statutory exclusion laws allow politicians, not judges, to decide which violent juveniles should be prosecuted by the criminal court."
- "Similar to statutory exclusion mechanisms, prosecutorial discretion is often limited to a subset of cases based on age and offense characteristics."
- "There are two types of actions that do not require extensive NEPA environmental documentation: categorical exclusions and statutory exclusions."
- "This chapter addresses specific statutory exclusions from gross income: items that constitute income within the meaning of §61 but are not included in a taxpayer's gross income because of a specific exception in the Code."
Usage
- American usage
- Uncountable
- Countable