Guilielmus Durantis

Guilielmus Durantis, Speculum iuris (Basel: 1574) Pars III, De inquisitione § Vltimo (p. 42)

Abbas non privabit eum defensione, quae excommunicato, et etiam diabolo, si in iudicio adesset, non negaretur. (The abbot shall not take from the reus his defense; even the devil, if he would be accused of a crime in court, would not be denied a defense).

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