inquisitorial procedure

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inquisitorial procedure

a procedure that inquires into the facts and circumstances and the law with a view to reaching the truth. It is very common in continental Europe. The active role of the judge is perhaps the single most distinguishing feature from the ACCUSATORIAL PROCEDURE.

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She agrees with this reviewer that inquisitorial procedure and the wide use of torture as a tool of investigation came to Muscovy from the Hapsburg Carolina.

Criminal law in Muscovy

The book investigates the operation of public justice inside a Late Medieval city, highlighting the development of inquisitorial procedure and detailing the logic and process of the criminal trial, and the relationship between courts, procedures, and individuals.

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In another work, I have also argued for the adoption of an inquisitorial procedure that relies primarily on judicial rather than party-control of the adjudication process.

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Chapter 5, 'Confession and Defence: Aggressive Tactics,' examines three different processes that took place in 1572 in Venice to illustrate a range of possible variations in inquisitorial procedure against impenitent philo-Protestants.

Jane K Wickersham, Rituals of Prosecution, the Roman Inquisition and the Prosecution of Philo-Protestants in Sixteenth Century Italy

Among their topics are ideal-typical adversarial and inquisitorial procedure, the development of the Crown Prosecution Service, and the early history of prosecution.

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In the fifth chapter Berco looks at the functioning of the sodomy trial not only as an Inquisitorial procedure, but also as a social phenomenon, particularly affected by the act of denunciation.

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Although the author mistakenly asserts that "a great majority of the [early] inquisitors were Dominicans" (55), her chapter on inquisitorial procedure bolsters her argument that inquisitorial testimony generally provides reliable information about the religious customs of late fifteenth-century Aragonese conversos.

The Tribunal of Zaragoza and Crypto-Judaism, 1484-1515

In this constitution the death penalty, torture and the inquisitorial procedure were forbidden.

La justicia penal en Venezuela al final del Periodo Colonial: el caso de Gual y Espana

s trial seems partly arbitrary, since no formal charge is made but the court is merely 'von der Schuld angezogen', and partly archaic, since it rests entirely on the inquisitorial procedure which was severely diluted by the new Austrian code of criminal justice promulgated in 1850.

'Und blatterte ein wenig in der Bibel': Studien zu Franz Kafkas Bibellekture und ihren Auswirkungen auf sein Werk

Sanchez's trial thus becomes both a dramatic historical tale and a vehicle for exploring madness, religious toleration, and inquisitorial procedure in his era.