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alibi 音标拼音: ['æləb ,ɑɪ] n. 不在场证明辩解,托辞 不在场证明辩解,托辞 alibi n 1: ( law) a defense by an accused person purporting to show that he or she could not have committed the crime in question 2: a defense of some offensive behavior or some failure to keep a promise etc.; " he kept finding excuses to stay"; " every day he had a new alibi for not getting a job"; " his transparent self- justification was unacceptable" [ synonym: { excuse}, { alibi}, { exculpation}, { self- justification}] v 1: exonerate by means of an alibiAlibi \ Al" i* bi\, n. [ L., elsewhere, at another place. See { Alias}.] ( Law) The plea or mode of defense under which a person on trial for a crime proves or attempts to prove that he was in another place when the alleged act was committed; as, to set up an alibi; to prove an alibi. [ 1913 Webster] 54 Moby Thesaurus words for " alibi": alibi out of, apologize for, apology, blind, cloak, color, cop- out, cover, cover story, cover with excuses, cover- up, device, excuse, explain, explanation, facade, feint, front, gloss, guise, handle, lame excuse, lie out of, likely story, locus standi, make apology for, mask, offer excuse for, ostensible motive, out, plea, plead ignorance, poor excuse, pretense, pretension, pretext, protestation, public motive, put- off, refuge, right, screen, semblance, sham, show, smoke screen, squirm out of, stalking- horse, stratagem, subterfuge, trick, varnish, veil, worm out ofALIBI, in evidence. This is a Latin word which signifies, elsewhere. 2. When a person, charged with a crime, proves ( se eadem die fuissealibi,) that he was, at the time alleged, in a different place from that inwhich it was committed, he is said to prove an alibi, the effect of which isto lay a foundation for the necessary inference, that he could not havecommitted it. See Bract. fo. 140, lib. 3, cap. 20, De Corona. 3. This proof is usually made out by the testimony of witnesses, but itis presumed it might be made out by writings; as if the party could prove bya record properly authenticated, that on the day or at the time in question, he was in another place. 4. It must be admitted that mere alibi evidence lies under a great andgeneral prejudice, and ought to be heard with uncommon caution; but if itappear, to be founded in truth, it is the best negative evidence that can beoffered; it is really positive evidence, which in the nature of thingsnecessarily implies a negative; and in many cases it is the only evidencewhich an innocent man can offer. |
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