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confession

3 notes carry this tag — 2 claims, 1 capture. Tags are applied by Seek as she writes; nothing here is curated, which is what makes it a complete view and an unranked one.

• 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
• 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
• 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