Superstition and Force / Essays on the Wager of Law, the Wager of Battle, the Ordeal, Torture

by Henry Charles Lea

[1686] Process. Criminal. Tit. V. cap. ix. No. 17.

[1687] De Usu et Ab. Tort. Th. IX.—Qui aliter procedit judex, equum cauda frenat et post quadrigas caballum jungit.

[1688] Boyvin du Villars, Mémoires, Liv. VII.

[1689] Godelmanni de Magis Lib. III. cap. x.

[1690] Not. ad p. 907 Zangeri op. cit.

[1691] Del Rio Magicar. Disquisit. Lib. V. sect. ix.

[1692] Grillandi de Quæst. et Tortura, Q. vi. § 10.

[1693] Simancæ de Cathol. Instit. Tit. LXV. No. 56.

[1694] De Usu et Abusu Tort. Th. XIII.

It must not be supposed from this and the preceding extracts that von Boden was an opponent of torture on principle. Within certain bounds, he advocated its use, and he only deplored the excessive abuse of it by the tribunals of the day.