切きり捨すて御ご免めん

noun

right of samurai to kill commoners for perceived affronts (Edo period)

Historical term referring to the privilege of the samurai class during the Edo period to cut down a commoner on the spot for a perceived insult or disrespect, without legal repercussions.

• 江え戸ど時じ代だいには、武ぶ士しには切きり捨すて御ご免めんという特とっ権けんがあった。

  In the Edo period, samurai had the privilege known as kirisute gomen, the right to cut down a commoner.

• 切きり捨すて御ご免めんは、実じっ際さいには厳きびしい制せい限げんがあったと言いわれている。

  It is said that kirisute gomen was actually subject to strict limitations.