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CONTENTS.
CHAPTER IX—The INQUISITORIAL PROCESS | |
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Inquisitor both Judge and Confessor | 399 |
Difficulty of Proving Heresy | 400 |
The Inquisitorial Process universally Employed | 401 |
Age of Responsibility—Proceedings in Absentia. The Dead | 402 |
All Safeguards Withdrawn.—Secrecy of Procedure | 405 |
Confession not Requisite for Conviction | 407 |
Importance Attached to Confession | 408 |
lnterrogatory of the Accused | 410 |
Resourees for Extractiug Confession.—Deceit | 411 |
Irregular Tortures, Mental and Physical.—Delays | 417 |
Formal Torture | 421 |
Retricted by Clement V. | 424 |
Rules for its Employment | 426 |
Retraction of Confessions. | 438 |
CHAPTER X.-EVIDENCE. | |
Comparative Unimportance of Witnesses | 430 |
Flimsiness of Evidence Admitted | 431 |
The Crime Known as "Suspicion of Heresy" | 433 |
Number of Witnesses.—No Restrictions as to Character or Age | 434 |
Mortal Enmity the only Disability | 436 |
Secrecy of Confessional Disregarded | 437 |
Suppression of Names of Witnesses | 437 |
Evidence sometimes Withheld | 439 |
Frequency of False-witness.—Its Penalty | 440 |
CHAPTER XI.-The DEFENCE | |
Opportanity of Defenee Reduced to Minimum | 443 |
Denial of Counsel | 444 |
Malice of Witnesses the only Defence | 446 |
Prosecution of the Dead | 448 |
Defence practically Impossible.—Appeals | 449 |
Condemmation virtually Inevitable | 453 |
Suspicion of Heresy,— Light, Vehement, and Violent. | 454 |
Purgation by Conjurators | 455 |
Abjuration | 457 |