judicis

Updated: June 28, 2025

Boni judicis est ampliare justitiam that is, to make open and liberal justice. But in criminal matters this parity of reason, and these analogies, ever have been, and ever ought to be, shunned. Whatever is incident to a court of judicature, is necessary to the House of Commons, as judging in elections.

Edmund Burke - Thoughts on the Present Discontents, and Speeches, etc.

It was true, that a judicial confession, in presence of the Justices themselves, was the strongest of all proof, insomuch that it is said in law, that 'in confitentem nullae sunt partes judicis. But this was true of judicial confession only, by which law meant that which is made in presence of the justices, and the sworn inquest.

Sir Walter Scott - The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Complete