verity
verity (ver-[schwa]-tee). Truth; truthfulness; conformity to fact.
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intolerable severity
intolerable severity 无法容忍的苛刻待遇 此用语常用来描述构成离婚理由的虐待的特征，指夫妻一方对另一方的极端残暴的行为。
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accident severity
accident severity 意外事故强度 又称千工时事故损失强度率。指一定时期（通常为一年）某单位因意外事故造成的员工停工损失工时数（每死亡一人折合6000个工作日）与同一时期本单位全员工时总量的比。
parental discipline privilege
parental-discipline privilege. A parent’s right to use reasonable force or to impose reasonable punishment on a child in a way that is necessary to control, train, and educate. • Several factors are used to determine the reasonableness of the action, including whether the actor is the parent; the child’s age, sex, and physical and mental
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hardship
hardship. 1. Privation; suffering or adversity. 2. The severity with which a proposed construction of law would bear on a particular case, sometimes forming a basis (also known as an argument ab inconvenienti) against the construction. See AB INCONVENIENTI; HARD CASE. [Cases: Statutes 181(2). C.J.S. Statutes § 318.] 3. Family law. A condition that makes
diminished capacity
An impaired mental condition — short of insanity — that is caused by intoxication, trauma, or disease and that prevents a person from having the mental state necessary to be held responsible for a crime. • In some jurisdictions, a defendant’s diminished capacity can be used to determine the degree of the offense or the
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felonious assault
An assault that is of sufficient severity to be classified and punished as a felony. See aggravated assault; assault with a deadly weapon. [Cases: Assault and Battery 60. C.J.S. Assault and Battery § 63.]