The penalty of infamy can only attach to the person of the culprit. (Article 146.)
Confiscation of property, judgments by special commission, retroactive laws, and the torture in any shape, or under any pretence, are abolished for ever. (Articles 147, 148, 149.)
No one can be imprisoned without strong grounds of suspicion, nor detained above sixty hours, without proofs of guilt. (Articles 150, 151.)
No house can be entered, or papers examined, belonging to any inhabitant of the Republic, unless in cases expressly provided for by law, and then only in the manner prescribed by it. (Article 152.)
No inhabitant of the Republic shall be forced to give evidence on oath, calculated to criminate himself. (Article 153.)
No one shall be deprived of the right to terminate a suit by Arbitration, in any stage of the proceedings, nor shall be allowed to commence an action without having had recourse, previously, to the Judgment of Conciliation.[1] (Articles 155 and 156.)
- ↑ This Judgment of Conciliation was one of the few, the very few, really good and useful provisions of the Spanish Constitution. It prohibited any two parties from commencing a law-suit, until they were provided with a certificate from a Constitutional Alcalde, (not a lawyer) stating that a judgment by Arbitration or Conciliation, had been tried before him in vain.
