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inquisitorial
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inquisitorial
Law denoting criminal procedure in which one party is both prosecutor and judge, or in which the trial is held in secret


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Consequently, attorneys in adversarial and inquisitorial systems must each internalize and practice a different set of norms with respect to ex parte communication.
Mexico's Congress soon may convert its legal system from the Napoleonic-type inquisitorial system to a U.
system of prosecuting corporate fraud conveys so much power to prosecutors that it has become like the inquisitorial system common in European countries, but without the safeguards built into those systems to provide some constraints on prosecutorial power.
 
 
 
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