approvement

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Improvement of common lands by converting them for advantage of the landlord.
2. isim Approval; approbation.

   “I did nothing without your approvement.”

3. isim A confession of guilt by a prisoner charged with treason or felony, together with an accusation or implication against the accomplices and a giving evidence against them in order to obtain his own pardon.

   “The whole learning of approvements (i. e. trial by the evidence of an approver) is now obsolete being superseded by the modern practice of allowing an accused person to turn evidence for the Queen without confessing the indictment.”