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relegate his acts to history

English translation: render his acts irrelevant

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English term or phrase:relegate his acts to history
Selected answer:render his acts irrelevant
Entered by: Frank Szmulowicz, Ph. D.

19:03 May 29, 2020
English language (monolingual) [PRO]
Law/Patents - Law (general)
English term or phrase: relegate his acts to history
D may claim that P’s act is an overwhelming supervening event and that any
assistance or encouragement that D may have given has been superseded. The
Supreme Court recognised this in Jogee at para [97]-[98]
The qualification to this (recognised in Wesley Smith, Anderson and Morris and
Reid) is that it is possible for death to be caused by some overwhelming
supervening act by the perpetrator which nobody in the defendant’s shoes could
have contemplated might happen and is of such a character as to relegate his
acts to history; in that case the defendant will bear no criminal responsibility for
the death.
https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Crown-Co...
Frank Szmulowicz, Ph. D.
United States
Local time: 03:05
render his acts irrelevant
Explanation:
The key point is that the source text must rendered so as to make sense in its context, i.e. a Crown Court judgment.

The Crown Court is a court of criminal jurisdiction and the court of first instance for indictable (serious) criminal offences (felonies in US) in England and Wales.

The judgment concerns the circumstances in which a person charged jointly with the primary defendant, with a murder/manslaughter, as part of a joint enterprise, is not guilty because the primary defendant's murder/manslaughter was wholly unforeseeable by the co-defendant, i.e. there was no joint enterprise. For joint enterprise to exist the defendant must knowingly assist or encourage the crime and agree to act together with the primary offender for a common purpose.

The source text therefore means that the the co-defendant's acts, whatever they were, are irrelevant and can be disregarded, because they were not part of a joint enterprise to commit the murder/manslaughter and that the co-defendant is therefore not guilty of the primary offence.
Selected response from:

Mark Robertson
Local time: 08:05
Grading comment
Thank you, Mark. I appreciate you putting the answer in the legal context.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



SUMMARY OF ALL EXPLANATIONS PROVIDED
4 +2forget/shelve the whole thing and put it in the past
David Hollywood
4 +2render his acts irrelevant
Mark Robertson
4consign his acts to oblivion
Cathy Rosamond
Summary of reference entries provided
David Hollywood

Discussion entries: 4





  

Answers


26 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
consign his acts to oblivion


Explanation:
His acts will fade into history

Cathy Rosamond
France
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
Notes to answerer
Asker: I am sure this is what will happen; however, I wonder how this would happen in the legal sense. Will the documents be purged, filed somewhere, or what?


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Daryo: not quite - it simply means that these acts "no longer examined" // court cases don't go in "oblivion" and even if someone wasn't prosecuted or condamned, the records about that are certainly NOT "consigned to oblivion".
3 hrs
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24 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
forget/shelve the whole thing and put it in the past


Explanation:
I would say it doesn't mean more than this

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Note added at 29 mins (2020-05-29 19:33:13 GMT)
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my ref. is pretty irrelevant and I'm still wondering what (if any) other meaning might be implied...

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Note added at 36 mins (2020-05-29 19:39:40 GMT)
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and I have read your ref.

David Hollywood
Local time: 04:05
Works in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 48
Notes to answerer
Asker: This is the common meaning of the phrase - consign to the dustbin of history - as famously said by Leon Trotsky. I wonder what the Supreme Court may have had in mind.


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  AllegroTrans: can't see any other meaning; no further action will be taken
30 mins
  -> thanks Chris
agree  philgoddard: I agree that "shelved" covers all the bases. Daryo's quibbling about "forgotten" is just nitpicking.
2 hrs
  -> thanks Phil
neutral  Daryo: I don't think that ANYTHING related to court cases is simply "forgotten" - it will be RECORDED that "no further action was tasken" and why ...
3 hrs
  -> take your point Daryo and I think "shelved" covers all bases
neutral  Yvonne Gallagher: with Daryo's comment//Consign (it) to the past with no further action to be taken. "shelve" is not right register at all and "forget" is wrong
7 hrs
  -> see my reply to Daryo
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1 day 21 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
render his acts irrelevant


Explanation:
The key point is that the source text must rendered so as to make sense in its context, i.e. a Crown Court judgment.

The Crown Court is a court of criminal jurisdiction and the court of first instance for indictable (serious) criminal offences (felonies in US) in England and Wales.

The judgment concerns the circumstances in which a person charged jointly with the primary defendant, with a murder/manslaughter, as part of a joint enterprise, is not guilty because the primary defendant's murder/manslaughter was wholly unforeseeable by the co-defendant, i.e. there was no joint enterprise. For joint enterprise to exist the defendant must knowingly assist or encourage the crime and agree to act together with the primary offender for a common purpose.

The source text therefore means that the the co-defendant's acts, whatever they were, are irrelevant and can be disregarded, because they were not part of a joint enterprise to commit the murder/manslaughter and that the co-defendant is therefore not guilty of the primary offence.

Mark Robertson
Local time: 08:05
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 56
Grading comment
Thank you, Mark. I appreciate you putting the answer in the legal context.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  AllegroTrans: Good explanation
5 hrs
agree  mike23: I think that's it. We need to see it in the right context
1 day 14 hrs
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Reference comments


19 mins
Reference

Reference information:
RELEGATION, civil law. Among the Romans relegation was a banishment to a certain place, and consequently was an interdiction of all places except the one designated.
2. It differed from deportation. (q.v.) Relegation and deportation agree u these particulars: 1. Neither could be in a Roman city or province. 2. Neither caused the party punished to lose his liberty. Inst. 1,16, 2; Digest, 48, 22, 4; Code, 9, 47,26.
3. Relegation and deportation differed in this. 1. Because deportation deprived of the right of citizenship, which was preserved notwithstanding the relegation. 2. Because deportation was always perpetual, and relegation was generally for a limited time. 3. Because deportation was always attended with confiscation of property, although not mentioned in the sentence; while a loss of property was not a consequence of relegation unless it was perpetual, or made a part of the sentence. Inst. 1, 12, 1 & 2; Dig. 48, 20, 7, 5; Id. 48, 22, 1 to 7; Code, 9, 47, 8.

David Hollywood
Works in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 48
Note to reference poster
Asker: Thank you, David. Here, it is the act that is being relegated. While the sense seems clear, I was aiming at legal precision, if possible.


Peer comments on this reference comment (and responses from the reference poster)
neutral  AllegroTrans: This is a different kind of relegation
51 mins
neutral  Yvonne Gallagher: context?
7 hrs
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