Vestram illis servate legem usque ad confessionem necessariam, et iam si confessione praeveniantur, vacabunt: sententia opus est: debito poenae nocens expungendus est, non eximendus.
Maintain your law by it till the necessary confession is made. If it is forestalled by confession, it serves no purpose. It is the sentence that is called for then; the guilty man must cancel the penalty due by enduring it, not by being relieved of it.
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