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it offers only exculpation to a degree, resulting in the substitution of a lesser offence (e.g., manslaughter instead of murder) or a mitigated sentence.

English law

Section 2 of the Homicide Act 1957 states:

Scottish law

Although the term is not used during the proceedings, the 1795 trial of Sir Archibald Gordon Kinloch for

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