benefit of the doubt

English

Alternative forms

• BOTD (initialism)

Noun

benefit of the doubt

1. A favorable judgement given in the absence of full evidence.
2. (cricket) The principle employed by umpires in cases of uncertainty concerning a batsman possibly being out, in which the decision must be in the batsman's favour.

Translations

a favorable judgement given in the absence of full evidence

• Dutch: voordeel van de twijfel (nl) n
• German: Im Zweifelsfall für den Angeklagten (de)
• Hebrew: מחמת הספק
• Icelandic: (give the benefit of the doubt) láta njóta vafans (is), (give the benefit of the doubt) telja saklausan uns sekt hefur verið sönnuð (is) m

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: la tvilen komme tiltalte til gode (no)

  Nynorsk: la tvilen kome tiltalte til gode (nn)

• Portuguese: benefício da dúvida (pt) m
• Spanish: beneficio de la duda (es)