in mercy

in mercy, adv. At a judge’s discretion concerning punishment. • A judgment formerly noted (by the Law Latin phrase in misericordia) which litigant lost by stating that the unsuccessful party was in the court’s mercy. A plaintiff held in mercy for a false claim, for example, was said to be in misericordia pro falso clamore suo.

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