Salvin Hours, Christ before Pilate, London, British Library, Add. 48985, fol. 32v

Huguccio († 1210)

I distinguish between absolute and conditional coercion:  If anyone is baptized by absolute coercion <later vis praecisa or coactio praecisa>, for example if one person tied him down and another poured water over him, unless he consents afterwards, he ought not to be forced to embrace the Christian faith.

Summa to D. 45 c.5 s.v. associatos unctos corporis Domini, Lons- le-Saunier, Archives départe-mentales du Jura 16, fol. 61v, Admont, Stiftsbibliothek 7, fol. 61v,  Vat. lat. 2280, fol. 44r: “De coactione autem distinquo, aut est absoluta aut est conditionalis.  Si absoluta coactione quis baptizetur, puta unus tenet eum ligatum et alius superfundit aquam, nisi (ubi Lons-le-Saunier) postea consentiat, non debet cogi ad fidem Christianam tenendam.”