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Confessio

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

Lat. A confession. Confessio injudicio; a confession made in, or before a court. €o Dressi« facta in jadici« oami pr«batione najor cat. A confession made in court is of greater effect than any proof.

Jenk. Cent, 102.

Conrevft Oft in jadicio pro jndicato babe* tnr, et ^aodaaunodo sna scnteatia danmatar. One who makes a confession in court is considered as having judgment passed upon him, and is in a manner condemned by his own sentence.

1 1 Co. 30.

The peculiar meaning of the words in judicio seems to have been misapprehended in most of the translations of these maxims. See Injudicio, Judicium,