The traditional term acquittal is often used as synonym for the right term acquietal, has originally however rather the meaning: an apprentice with associate explain.

The acquittal decreases/goes back like the acquietal to the verb to acquit, in former times frey speak. If acquietal means that thus usually acquits of debt, in the today's code of criminal procedure the acquietal in one legal proceedings, today only occasionally originally used term acquittal had the meaning: acquit of an obligation.

The term was in particular in the outgoing late Middle Ages and the following centuries at the guilds relating to crafts for the acquittal of the apprentices in use. The apprentices were with the acquittal by the obligations, which had them at this time, "acquitted "and to associate avowedly.

Today in different skilled trades still frequently the idiom associating acquittal is used, which is celebrated after existed associating examination with the delivery of the associating letters. With it the professional training of the apprentice ends.

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