Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

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emendation

1. Correction or revision, esp. of a text. 2. Hist. The correction of an error or wrongdoing; atonement for a criminal offense. ( As criminal law developed over time, emendation by payment of wer or wite gradually faded away and was replaced by harsher punishments.