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    The Constitutio Criminalis Carolina (sometimes shortened to Carolina) is recognised as the first body of German criminal law (Strafgesetzbuch). It was...
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    Within the Holy Roman Empire, in article 131 of the 1532 Constitutio Criminalis Carolina, the following punishment was stated for women found guilty...
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    followed in 1507 by the Constitutio Criminalis Bambergensis. Both codes formed the basis of the Constitutio Criminalis Carolina (CCC), passed in 1532 under...
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  • births. Abortion legislation was codified in item 133 of the Constitutio Criminalis Carolina (1532). Later were particular laws in Germany, e.g. in Prussia...
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    1532, Holy Roman Emperor Charles V promulgated his penal code Constitutio Criminalis Carolina. A number of crimes were punishable with death by burning,...
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  • or normative. Holy Roman Emperor Charles V introduced the Constitutio Criminalis Carolina into law in 1532. It was the first codified law to mention...
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    the dogs. In the Holy Roman Empire emperor Charles V's 1532 Constitutio Criminalis Carolina specifies how every dismemberment (quartering) should ideally...
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    used torture without any of the restrictions regulated by the Constitutio Criminalis Carolina. The accused were tortured to confess maleficia (harmful magic);...
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    of Bremen promulgated (alongside the somewhat milder 1532 Constitutio Criminalis Carolina punishment of drowning) live burial as an alternate execution...
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  • followed in 1507 by the Constitutio Criminalis Bambergensis. Both codes formed the basis of the Constitutio Criminalis Carolina (CCC), passed in 1532 under...
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    formally categorized as a crime in the Holy Roman Empire in the Constitutio Criminalis Carolina in 1532. The Holy Roman Empire consisted of a number of autonomous...
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    these sentiments as Germany became baptised. In 1532, the Constitutio Criminalis Carolina produced a foundation for this principle of law, which remained...
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    used torture without any of the restrictions regulated by the Constitutio Criminalis Carolina, in order to force the accused to first confess to their own...
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  • Reformation of 1498 and then the Constitutio Criminalis Bambergensis of 1507. The adoption of the Constitutio Criminalis Carolina (peinliche Gerichtsordnung...
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  • and were dealt with more leniently than alleged witches. The Constitutio Criminalis Carolina (1532) of the Holy Roman Empire, and the Danish Witchcraft...
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    approval of a penal code for all of Germany, known as the Constitutio Criminalis Carolina, and returned to the Low Countries in 1531. Margaret of Austria...
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    Augsburg presentation of the Augsburg Confession 1532 Regensburg Constitutio Criminalis Carolina 1541 Regensburg     1542 Speyer     1542 Nuremberg     1543...
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    have faced persecution throughout German history. The 1532 Constitutio Criminalis Carolina, the first penal code of the Holy Roman Empire, called for...
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    der Constitutio Criminalis Carolina [Criminal law, criminal proceeding and reception. Basics, development and impact of the Constitutio Criminalis Carolina]...
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    practices of the courts. This would be part of the basis for the Constitutio Criminalis Carolina established under Charles V in 1530. Regarding the use of torture...
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    Schwarzenberg in 1507, which later became a model for the Constitutio Criminalis Carolina agreed at the 1530 Diet of Augsburg. Bishop Georg, though a...
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    municipal law. By publishing a Polish language summary of the 1532 Constitutio Criminalis Carolina, he contributed substantially to its popularization in Poland...
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    Luther, and author of the Constitutio Criminalis Bambergensis, which was the basis for the Constitutio Criminalis Carolina Wilhelm I, Baron of Schwarzenberg...
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    accusation of Sidonia. According to contemporary law, the Constitutio Criminalis Carolina, two eyewitnesses were sufficient to convict both Sidonia and...
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    the de Rarogne family, and 1634, with the abolition of the Constitutio Criminalis Carolina and the end of the bishop's temporal power as an elective prince...
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    and were dealt with more leniently than alleged witches. The Constitutio Criminalis Carolina (1532) of the Holy Roman Empire, and the Danish Witchcraft...
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  • Reformation of 1498 and the Constitutio Criminalis Bambergensis of 1507. The adoption of the Constitutio Criminalis Carolina ("peinliche Gerichtsordnung"...
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    the Bambergensis), which would later form the basis of the Constitutio Criminalis Carolina (1530–32). Schenk von Limpurg was a trusted adviser of Maximilian...
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    for the punishment of homosexuality in Switzerland is the Constitutio Criminalis Carolina, variations of which were introduced in many cantons of the...
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