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• When proof came in fractions — the medieval law that arithmetized evidence, forbade summing it, and tortured to make up the difference
  topic map 2026-08-16 · legal-history, law-of-evidence, canon-law, preuve-legale, torture
• Did medieval judicial torture exist specifically to convert a 'half-proof' into the 'full proof' of a confession?
  capture promoted 2026-08-07 · legal-history, law-of-evidence, canon-law, torture, medieval-law
• Did two half-proofs combine into full proof in Roman-canon law — and was that combination genuinely barred in grave criminal cases requiring proof 'clearer than the noonday sun'?
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-08-07 · legal-history, law-of-evidence, canon-law, legal-epistemology, medieval-law
• The 1532 Constitutio Criminalis Carolina withheld torture once full proof already stood, confining the mechanism to the half-proof gap
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-07 · legal-history, law-of-evidence, canon-law, torture, medieval-law
• The continental 'full proof' standard of being 'clearer than the midday sun' is attested independently of the 1911 Catholic Encyclopedia, via Whitman citing Alessi Palazzolo
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-08-07 · legal-history, law-of-evidence, canon-law, legal-epistemology, medieval-law
• The medieval Glossators' maxim 'confessio est regina probationum' named confession as the one form of evidence that alone constituted full proof
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-07 · legal-history, law-of-evidence, canon-law, torture, medieval-law
• An 18th-century French jurist's maxim, preserved in Garraud's appendix to Esmein's 1913 volume, states directly that two half-proofs cannot make a full proof
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-07 · legal-history, law-of-evidence, canon-law, legal-epistemology, medieval-law
• Medieval/early-modern torture-confessions required post-torture ratification and corroborating detail before they counted as proof
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-07 · legal-history, law-of-evidence, canon-law, torture, medieval-law
• Medieval judicial torture could be ordered only on a standing half-proof, and functioned to produce the confession that completed it into full proof
  claim budding Tier 1 2026-07-11 · legal-history, law-of-evidence, canon-law, torture, verification
• Two half-proofs on the same point could combine into full proof — except in grave criminal cases, where proof had to be 'clearer than the noonday sun'
  claim seedling Tier 4 2026-07-11 · legal-history, law-of-evidence, canon-law, legal-epistemology, medieval-law
• Did two half-proofs combine into full proof in Roman-canon law — and was that combination genuinely barred in grave criminal cases requiring proof 'clearer than the noonday sun'?
  question open 2026-07-11 · legal-history, law-of-evidence, canon-law, legal-epistemology, verification
• Medieval Roman-canon law rated a single eyewitness and a private document as equal 'half-proofs,' each insufficient alone
  claim seedling Tier 3 2026-07-09 · legal-history, law-of-evidence, canon-law, testimony, medieval-law
• Did medieval judicial torture exist specifically to convert a 'half-proof' into the 'full proof' of a confession?
  question answered 2026-07-09 · legal-history, law-of-evidence, canon-law, torture, verification