Meaning of statutory exclusion | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The legal requirement that under specified circumstances, a juvenile be tried as an adult, without the possibility of judicial discretion.
   US, uncountable
2. A situation which is not covered by a particular rule or process because of a statute.
   countable

Examples

“Statutory exclusion is clearly the most rigid method of determining how a juvenile offender will be processed, and most determinations are based on serious offenses and age limits.”

“Statutory exclusion is part of the same trend toward “get-tough” legislation that has shifted decision-making from judges to legislators and prosecutors (Feld, 2000).”

“Statutory exclusion laws allow politicians, not judges, to decide which violent juveniles should be prosecuted by the criminal court.”

“Similar to statutory exclusion mechanisms, prosecutorial discretion is often limited to a subset of cases based on age and offense characteristics.”

“There are two types of actions that do not require extensive NEPA environmental documentation: categorical exclusions and statutory exclusions.”

“This chapter addresses specific statutory exclusions from gross income: items that constitute income within the meaning of §61 but are not included in a taxpayer's gross income because of a specific exception in the Code.”

“As a result we have both statutory exclusions from patentability and, where the words of the statute are insufficient, judicially derived exclusions.”

CEFR level