Note 1705 — Chapter VIII · FINAL SHAPE OF THE TORTURE SYSTEM.
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Fortescue, in his arguments against the use of torture, does not fail to recognize that the acquittal of a tortured prisoner is the condemnation of the judge—“qui judex eum pronuntiet innocentem, nonne eodem judicio judex ille seipsum reum judicat omnis sævitiæ et pœnarum quibus innocentem afflixit?”—De Laud. Legg. Angl. cap. xxii.