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Examples of inquisitorial

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These were issued in the form of manuals for inquisitorial judges.
Inquisitorial penances have been neglected in describing the history of penance itself.
Although the volume is largely concerned with confession, in consistorial organisation of these churches, there was a continuum from confession to inquisitorial jurisdiction.
These were codified legal systems utilizing an inquisitorial method of investigation.
Lawyers are involved in the inquisitorial system of justice, but as advisors to their clients rather than as key actors in a trial.
Ideas of both inclusion and exclusion were to be influential in the development of inquisitorial penances.
Alternatively, the civilian, code based system of law has historically been coupled with an inquisitorial system of practice.
The inquisitorial system is characterised by the unique role of judges who are required to gather evidence and question witnesses in order to find truth.
Inquisitorial penances were shaped by three main influences.
The inquisitorial system is also distinguished by the written nature of the proceedings.
Using theological tracts and inquisitorial guidelines she sketches the motivating factors in the court's procedure.
Only in the 1240s is a growing confidence in an institutional mission embodied in the construction of inquisitorial prisons.
The links between the reformers and beguins are examined in chapter x and inquisitorial sources are fully exploited.
The uncertain distinction between 'refugees' and 'internees' strengthened an inquisitorial attitude on the part of a government that was more concerned with public security than with humanitarian intervention.
All inquisitorial penalties other than burning were classed as penances in that, in theory at least, they were undergone voluntarily and were designed to demonstrate the penitent's spiritual reconciliation.
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