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Peine forte et dure (Law French for "hard and forceful punishment") was a method of torture formerly used in the common law legal system, in which a defendant who refused to plead ("stood mute") would be subjected to having heavier and heavier stones placed upon their chest until a plea was entered, or death resulted.
Peine forte et dure (Law French for "forceful and hard punishment") was a method of torture formerly used in the common law legal system, in which a defendant who refused to plead ("stood mute") would be subjected to having heavier and heavier stones placed upon his or her chest until a plea was entered, or as the weight of the stones on the chest became too great for the condemned to breathe ...
The last exception was peine forte et dure, which could be used on someone who refused to plead guilty or not guilty, which was abolished in 1772. [15] Torture was prohibited in Scotland in 1708 after the Acts of Union 1707. These prohibitions applied only in Britain, not in territories of the British Empire unless explicitly introduced there.
peine forte et dure: strong and harsh punishment torture, in particular to force a defendant to enter a plea. per my et per tout: by half and by the whole describes a joint tenancy: by the half for purposes of survivorship, by the whole for purposes of alienation. petit jury "small jury" a trial jury, now usually just referred to as a jury ...
Peine forte et dure; Torture chamber; Torture Museums. Rüdesheim am Rhein#Museums (Mediaeval Torture Museum) Turcas; References This page was last edited ...
Are we sure this is peine forte et dure? In modern French, fort takes an e after a feminine noun such as peine (just as dur does), but in Old French (which this is derived from) fort was invariable for gender, as in modern Spanish and Italian. So, shouldn't this be peine fort et dure? I have seen in spelt thus. Chamaeleon 23:43, 12 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Pope Francis used a highly derogatory term towards the LGBT community as he reiterated in a closed-door meeting with Italian bishops that gay people should not be allowed to become priests ...
In the past, if he was found by the jury to be mute of malice, he would be tortured until he spoke or died (see Peine forte et dure). In a criminal trial in Oxford Crown Court in 2023, the defendant was a litigant in person who refused to speak in court, whom the jury first found mute of malice, and the following day found guilty of the ...