Sentence examples for inquisitorial methods from inspiring English sources

Landa was condemned in Spain by the Council of the Indies, which in 1543 had expressly forbidden Inquisitorial methods in New Spain.

The English rejected the inquisitorial methods of other European nations and instead relied upon an accusatorial model in which judges presided over jury trials and had no duty or authority to secure a defendant's confession.

Inquisitorial procedure, in law, one of the two methods of exposing evidence in court (the other being the adversary procedure).

Adversary procedure, in law, one of the two methods of exposing evidence in court (the other being the inquisitorial procedure).

Not a very inquisitorial inquiry.

The danger, in a republic, wasn't an inquisitorial priesthood.

The IPC would, he added, be "inquisitorial rather than adversarial".

"We're going to be inquisitorial," she says.

But Berman reads volumes into Ramadan's silences and pursues him with inquisitorial zeal.

Joe Biden, in that seat, enjoyed getting inquisitorial with Bush-administration witnesses.

It is the last feature that gives rise to what Mr. Murphy calls "the inquisitorial impulse".