Meaning of nocency | Babel Free

Definitions

Guilt; transgression.

obsolete, uncountable

Examples

“Somhampton was beſt truſted in that, for he had been verſed in queſtions and anſwers, under the nocency of Eſſex Treaſon; […]”

“Firſt, Becauſe the Commiſſioners had a Power to declare whether the Lands had been forfeited or not, […] then they would make no Declaration of the Nocency or Innocency of the Perſons holding the Lands, […]”

“He inſiſted, that it was moſt agreeable to Law, as well as moſt equal for the Subject, that the Nocency or Innocency of the Iriſh ſhould be tried by the Common-Law, where every Perſon would meet with a fair Trial by Juries of their Neighbours; […]”

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