To ensure that heresy was really destroyed, a remarkable weakening of the rules of evidence was countenanced in this case, which was not allowed in any other legal context: “One accused or suspected of heresy against whom there has arisen great and vehement suspicion of this crime and who has abjured heresy in court, if he afterward falls into it should be regarded by a legal fiction as relapsed, even though before his abjuration of heresy the crime was not fully proved against him. But if there was only a light and moderate suspicion against him, he may be more severely punished for that
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