In later crises, risk-sharing was mostly contained by resorting to the device of acquittals, with only a residual growth in sharecropping.
Before harvesting, the tenant requested acquittal on contingency grounds, often threatening to apply for, or already armed with a judicial mandate for encampacao.
If upon such proof there is reasonable doubt remaining, the accused is entitled to the benefit of it by an acquittal.
Yet current practice allows acquittal on precisely such inexpressible worries.
The ultra vires thesis holds that imperiled wrongdoers faced with death are entitled to an acquittal because the state lacks standing to punish them.
If it came to a trial, acquittal was anything but certain.
For that reason, his adjudication resulted in a legal acquittal that was, in turn, wrapped in a social conviction.
Any one of these excuses, if true, should lead to an acquittal.
