酌しゃく量りょう

noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru', transitive verb

taking into consideration; making allowances

Formal term used especially in legal or official contexts when a decision-maker considers mitigating circumstances or exercises discretion. Often appears as 酌量する or in the compound 情状酌量.

• 裁さい判ばん官かんは被ひ告こくの家か庭てい環かん境きょうを酌しゃく量りょうして、執しっ行こう猶ゆう予よを言いい渡わたした。

  The judge took the defendant's family circumstances into consideration and handed down a suspended sentence.

• 情じょう状じょう酌しゃく量りょうの余よ地ちがあると弁べん護ご側がわは主しゅ張ちょうした。

  The defense argued that there were grounds for leniency.