acquittal

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From acquit +‎ -al.

acquittal (countable and uncountable, plural acquittals)

(now rare) The act of fulfilling the duties (of a given role, obligation etc.). [from 15th c.]
(law) A legal decision that someone is not guilty with which they have been charged, or the formal dismissal of a charge by some other legal process. [from 15th c.]
Payment of a debt or other obligation; reparations, amends. [from 15th c.]
(historical) The act of releasing someone from debt or other obligation; acquittance. [from 15th c.]
(rare) Avoidance of danger; deliverance. [from 17th c.]

legal decision of not guilty

Armenian: արդարացում (hy) (ardaracʿum)
Belarusian: апраўда́нне n (apraŭdánnje)
Bulgarian: оправда́ване n (opravdávane)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 宣告無罪, 宣告无罪 (xuāngào wúzuì), 無罪開釋, 无罪开释 (wúzuì kāishì)
Danish: frikendelse c, frifindelse c
Dutch: vrijspraak (nl) m or f
Faroese: frídøming f
Finnish: vapauttava tuomio, vapautus (fi)
French: acquittement (fr) m, relaxe (fr) f
German: Freispruch (de) m
Hebrew: זיכוי‎ (he) m (zi-kui)
Hungarian: felmentés (hu), felmentő ítélet
Icelandic: sýknudómur m
Indonesian: bebas (id)
Italian: assoluzione (it) f
Japanese: 無罪判決 (むざいはんけつ, muzai hanketsu), 放免 (ja) (ほうめん, hōmen)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: frifinnelse m, frifinnelsesdom, frikjennelse

Nynorsk: frikjenning, frifinning, frikjennande dom
Polish: uniewinnianie (pl) n
Portuguese: absolvição (pt)
Romanian: achitare (ro) f
Russian: оправда́ние (ru) n (opravdánije)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ослобађање

Roman: oslobađanje (sh)
Spanish: absolución (es) f
Swedish: frikännande (sv) n, frikännande dom c
Tagalog: pawalansala
Ukrainian: ви́правдання n (výpravdannja)

payment of debt or other obligation

acquittance from debt