Begging my pardon, he must express his astonishment over seeing a person of my background applying at the hall.

The Governor has the power to grant a pardon to any person concerned in or convicted of an offence, but the Governor can only use this power after consultation with the Advisory Committee on the Prerogative of Mercy.

The President of India can grant a pardon to or reduce the sentence of a convicted person for one time, particularly in cases involving punishment of death.

He / she has the right to grant pardon, to suspend, remit or commute the death sentence of any person.

On December 8, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued a proclamation offering a pardon to any person who had supported or fought for the Confederate Army, with full restoration of property rights, subject only to taking an oath of allegiance.

Then, in 1870, Congress passed a law that prohibited the use of a Presidential pardon as the basis for claiming sale proceeds, and further said that acceptance of such a pardon was evidence that the person pardoned did provide support to the South and was ineligible to recover sale proceeds.

Repentance and the Day of Atonement only absolve one from sins committed against God ; from sins against another person they absolve only when restitution has been made and the pardon of the offended party has been obtained ( Talmud Yoma 87a ; Mishneh Torah Teshuva2: 9 ).

In the year 1377 a pardon was given to a Welshman, who was wanted for killing another Welshman, after the accused person had taken sanctuary in Banbury church.

This endowed the emperor with inviolability ( sacrosanctity ) of his person, and the ability to pardon any civilian for any act, criminal or otherwise.

The Criminal Code of Canada, Section 748 ( 3 ) states that no person convicted of an offence under Section 121 ( frauds on the Government ), Section 124 ( selling or purchasing office ), or Section 418 ( selling defective stores to Her Majesty ), has, after that conviction, the capacity to contract with Her Majesty or to receive any benefits under a contract between Her Majesty and any other person or to hold office under Her Majesty unless a pardon has been granted.

The governor also has the ability to grant a pardon or commutation of sentence of any person convicted of a crime in the state, except in cases of treason or impeachment.

The convicted person sends a request for pardon to the President of the Republic.

Under the Constitution of India ( Article 72 ), the President of India can grant a pardon or reduce the sentence of a convicted person, particularly in cases involving capital punishment.

The application for royal pardon has to be carried out by the convicted person himself, his relatives or any other person in his name.

According to the Act of Settlement a pardon cannot prevent a person from being impeached by Parliament, but may rescind the penalty following conviction.

A presidential pardon may be granted at any time, however, and as when Ford pardoned Nixon, the pardoned person need not yet have been convicted or even formally charged with a crime.

Therefore, even if a person is granted a pardon, they must still disclose their conviction on any form where such information is required, although they may also disclose the fact that they received a pardon.

::( e ) having been convicted of an offence by a court of law in Singapore or Malaysia and sentenced to imprisonment for a term of not less than one year or to a fine of not less than S $ 2, 000 and having not received a free pardon, provided that where the conviction is by a court of law in Malaysia, the person shall not be disqualified unless the offence is also one which, had it been committed in Singapore, would have been punishable by a court of law in Singapore ;

*( c ) he / she is a person who is otherwise qualified to be elected a Member of Parliament, except that the disqualifications set out in paragraphs ( c ), ( d ), and ( e ) of clause ( 2 ) of article 94 of this Constitution shall not be removed, in respect of any such person, by a presidential pardon or by the lapse of time as provided for in clause ( 5 ) of that article.

( It should be noted that in the account given of the same events, in rabbinic sources ( b. Talmud Shabbat 99a ; Exodus Rabbah 41 ) and in the Qur ' an, Aaron is not the idol-maker and upon Moses ' return begged his pardon as he had felt mortally threatened by the Israelites ( Quran 7: 142-152 ).

The Dictionary of American Hymnology claims it is included in more than a thousand published hymnals, and recommends its use for " occasions of worship when we need to confess with joy that we are saved by God's grace alone ; as a hymn of response to forgiveness of sin or as an assurance of pardon ; as a confession of faith or after the sermon.

The form used in the Roman Rite included anointing of seven parts of the body while saying ( in Latin ): " Through this holy unction and His own most tender mercy may the Lord pardon thee whatever sins or faults thou hast committed deliquisti by sight hearing, smell, taste, touch, walking, carnal delectation ", the last phrase corresponding to the part of the body that was touched ; however, in the words of the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia, " the unction of the loins is generally, if not universally, omitted in English-speaking countries, and it is of course everywhere forbidden in case of women ".

Those who go wrong we should pardon and treat with compassion, since it is from ignorance that they err, being as it were blind.

* 1730 – Frederick II ( known as Frederick the Great ), King of Prussia, is granted a royal pardon and released from confinement.

* The sixth Law is that upon caution of the future time, a man ought to pardon the offences past of them that repenting, desire it.

* Maredudd, whose date of birth is unknown, was still living in 1421 when he accepted a pardon.

Ihram is also symbolic for holy virtue and pardon from all past sins.

The difference between an amnesty and a presidential pardon is that the former clears all subsequent effects of the sentencing, as though the crime had not been committed, while pardon simply relieves the sentenced individual from part or all of the remainder of the sentence.

Despite trying his best to stop them, La Forge is sympathetic to their actions and even offers a full pardon if they stop.

* Accused convicted under summary conviction are eligible for a pardon after 5 years provided the accused is not convicted of any further offences during that period.

During a meeting on what is thought to be Beckholmen outside of djurgården, Christian swore that all acts against him would be forgotten and gave pardon to several named persons ( including Gustav Vasa who had escaped Denmark where he had been held hostage.

In Biddle v. Perovich,, however, the Supreme Court reversed the doctrine, ruling that " pardon in our days is not a private act of grace from an individual happening to possess power.

In return, the prisoner will receive a full pardon and transportation back to Earth, though the real plan is revealed to be maintaining the secrecy of the mission by killing the prisoner immediately after the information is secured.

Wesleyan theology maintains that salvation is the act of God's grace entirely, from invitation, to pardon, to growth in holiness.

Acco, their leader, is forced to ask for pardon and give hostages to Caesar as collateral.

It is argued that Ford's pardon of Nixon played a major role in his defeat in the 1976 presidential election against Jimmy Carter.

The royal power, however, can only pardon when private resentment is appeased.

The doctrine of sola fide or " by faith alone " asserts God's pardon for guilty sinners is granted to and received through faith, conceived as excluding all " works ", alone.

But God, on the basis of the life, death, and resurrection of his Son, Jesus Christ alone ( solus Christus ), grants sinners judicial pardon, or justification, which is received solely through faith.

Christ's righteousness, according to the followers of " sola fide ", is imputed ( or attributed ) by God to the believing sinner ( as opposed to infused or imparted ), so that the divine verdict and pardon of the believing sinner is based not upon anything in the sinner, nor even faith itself, but upon Jesus Christ and his righteousness alone, which are received through faith alone.

Mrs. Blanche Dunkel, 60, who has spent 25 years in the Dwight reformatory for women for the murder in 1935 of her son-in-law, Ervin Lang, then 28, appealed for a parole at a hearing yesterday before two Illinois pardon and parole board members, John M. Bookwalter and Joseph Carpentier.

In 392, after the death of Valentinian II and the acclamation of Eugenius, Ambrose supplicated the emperor for the pardon of those who had supported Eugenius after Theodosius was eventually victorious.

Constantly fearing that his sons may have sinned and " cursed God in their hearts ", he habitually offered burnt offerings as a pardon for their sins.

Bostock also claimed that Teach had questioned him about the movements of local ships, but also that he had seemed unsurprised when Bostock told him of an expected royal pardon from London for all pirates.

The American President grants Rogers a full pardon for his anti-registration actions.

* 1999 – President Bill Clinton issues a posthumous pardon for U. S. Army Lt. Henry Ossian Flipper.

The fellows then agreed to the Bishop of Oxford as their president but James required that they admit they had been in the wrong and ask for his pardon.

He told Vice-Admiral Hans-Erich Voss that he would not entertain the idea of either surrender or escape: " I was the Reich Minister of Propaganda and led the fiercest activity against the Soviet Union, for which they would never pardon me ," Voss quoted him as saying.

" But in spite of this, and though the plotters offered him a large sum of money from the Pope, as well as safe passage for his wife and children to come to him from England, in the end he declined to have anything further to do with their plans and begged pardon from Sir Robert Cecil and from the Queen.

For his efforts, Luthor receives a presidential pardon for his past crimes.

Appeals for Whitacre's full pardon or clemency to the White House are supported by several current and former justice department officials: Dean Paisley, a retired 25-year veteran and former FBI supervisor on the price-fixing case ; two other FBI agents involved with the case ; a former Attorney General of the United States ; one of the former Asst.

In Norman times insanity was not seen as a defence in itself but a special circumstance in which the jury would deliver a guilty verdict and refer the defendant to the King for a pardon

Divine pardon at judgement was always a central concern for the Ancient Egyptians.

When the Spanish Ambassador asked for pardon for having killed a man, the Pope replied that he did not want to start his reign with such auspices as absolution from homicide, and ordered the appropriate tribunals to observe the law.

In the list of more important bulls issued by him the famous bull " In Coena Domini " ( 1568 ) takes a leading place ; but amongst others throwing light on Pope Pius V's character and policy there may be mentioned his prohibition of quaestuary ( February 1567 and January 1570 ); the condemnation of Michael Baius, the heretical Professor of Leuven ( 1567 ); the reform of the breviary ( July 1568 ); the denunciation of the " dirum nefas " ( August 1568 ); the banishment of the Jews from the ecclesiastical dominions except Rome and Ancona ( 1569 ); the injunction of the use of the reformed missal ( July 1570 ); the confirmation of the privileges of the Society of Crusaders for the protection of the Inquisition ( October 1570 ); the dogmatic certainty of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary ( November 1570 ); the suppression of the Fratres Humiliati for profligacy ( February 1571 ); the approbation of the new office of the Blessed Virgin ( March 1571 ); the enforcement of the daily recitation of the Canonical Hours ( September 1571 ); and the purchase of assistance against the Turks by offers of plenary pardon ( March 1572 ).

In the plea of pardon, the defendant claims that he or she has been pardoned for the offence and therefore cannot be tried for it.

Out of his practical experience in the Ministry of Justice with evaluating death penalties by Bavarian courts for royal pardon he published the most notable cases 1808 / 11 in Merkwürdige Criminalfälle and 1828 / 29 a much enlarged collection Aktenmäßige Darstellung merkwürdiger Verbrechen ( Notable crimes presented according to the court records ).

* to restore unity among all Christians, including seeking pardon for Catholic contributions to separation ;