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criminal-procedure

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• 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 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
• 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