statutory exclusion

plural statutory exclusions

1. USuncountablelawThe legal requirement that under specified circumstances, a juvenile be tried as an adult, without the possibility of judicial discretion.

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

   2009, Kären M. Hess, Juvenile Justice, →ISBN, page 324

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   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.

   1996, United States Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, Combating Violence and Delinquency, →ISBN

   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).

   2009, Richard Lawrence, Mario Hesse, Juvenile Justice: The Essentials, →ISBN, page 166

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

   2012, Elena Grigorenko, Handbook of Juvenile Forensic Psychology and Psychiatry, →ISBN, page 97

2. countableA situation which is not covered by a particular rule or process because of a statute.

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

   2007, Gerald W. Williams, The Forest Service: Fighting for Public Lands, →ISBN, page 469

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   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.

   2008, Gwendolyn Griffith Lieuallen, Basic Federal Income Tax, →ISBN, page 61

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

   2012, Sigrid Sterckx, Julian Cockbain, Exclusions from Patentability, →ISBN