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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

Colour

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pleading being aban-doned'] Where a judgment was confessed by cognovit actionem after plea pleaded, and the plea was withdrawn, it was called a confession or cognovit

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