Confessant - Law Dictionary Search Results
Voluntary, voluntary confession
Voluntary, voluntary confession, the crux of mak-ing a statement voluntarily is, what is intentional, intended, unimpelled by other influences, acting on
Westminster confession
Westminster confession, a document containing a statement of religious doctrine drawn up at a conference of British and Continental Protestant
Confessor
One who confesses one who acknowledges a fault or the truth of a charge at the risk of suffering specifically one
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Beknow
To confess to acknowledge
Confitent
One who confesses his sins and faults
Shriving
Shrift confession
Cognovit actionem
Cognovit actionem (he has confessed the action), a defendant's written confession of an action brought against him, to which he has no available
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pleading. It was an apparent or prima facie right; and the meaning of the rule, that pleadings in confession and avoidance should give colour, was that they should confess the matter adversely alleged, to such an extent,
Torture
Law Revision Act, 1863). The infliction of intense pain to body or mind to punish; to extract a confession or information, or to obtain sadistic pleasure, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1498. Torture is strictly the
Relicta verificatione
Relicta verificatione. ['his pleading being aban-doned'] Where a judgment was confessed by cognovit actionem after plea pleaded, and the plea was withdrawn, it was called a confession or cognovit
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