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loss of control

noun

A2CEFR level
18/100Rarity: common
TechnicalRegister

The partial defence to murder requiring a qualifying trigger and a loss of self-mastery.

The judge left loss of control to the jury on the strength of the qualifying trigger.

Similar: provocation

Topic: Criminal law in Legal English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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