conscience of the court
conscience of the court 法庭的良知 １指法庭有衡平法上的权力，根据公平和公正原则作出裁决；２指法庭在决定当事人或陪审团是否依法从事诉讼活动时所适用的准则，如在某些案件中，法庭否定了陪审团对损害赔偿的裁断，因为这种裁断「使法庭的良知受到震惊」〔shock the conscience of the court〕。
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CONSCIENCE OF THE COURT
conscience of the court
conscience of the court. 1. The court’s equitable power to decide issues based on notions of fairness and justice. See EQUITY(4). 2. A standard applied by the court in deciding whether a party or a jury has acted within ac-ceptable limits. • Thus, in some cases, a jury’s award of damages is upset because it
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