English modal verbs - Deduction. 1  In English, modal verbs as must, have to, have got to, canât and couldn't are used to express deduction and contention. 2  You're shiveringâyou must be cold. 3  Someone must have taken the key: it is not here. 4  I didn't order ten books. This has to be a mistake. 5  These aren't mineâthey've got to be yours.
Extenuating Circumstances. Facts surrounding the commission of a crime that work to mitigate or lessen it. Extenuating circumstances render a crime less evil or reprehensible. They do not lower the degree of an offense, although they might reduce the punishment imposed.
A principal act. or event being the object of investigation, the circumstances are the related or accessory facts or occurrences which attend upon it. which closely precede or follow it, which surround and accompany it, which depend upon it, or which support or qualify it Pfaffenbach v. Railroad, 142 Ind. 246, 41 N. E. 530; Clare v. People, 9 Colo.