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General Rules for Administration of Justice in the States and Territories of the Union.
ART. 145. Each state shall give faith and credit to the acts,
registers, and proceedings of the judges and other authorities of the other
states, and congress shall establish a uniform law for proving such acts, registers,
and proceedings.
ART. 146. The penalty of infamy does not extend beyond the
person punished.
ART. 147. The confiscation of goods is forever abolished.
ART. 148. All judgments by commissions and retroactive laws, are forever prohibited.
ART. 149. No authority shall ever inflict the torture under any pretence.
ART. 150. No one can be confined unless there be half proof or indications of his guilt.
ART. 151. No one shall be detained on indications alone, for more than sixty hours.
ART. 152. No authority can direct the seizure and registry of papers and effects in houses, except in cases and in the form expressly prescribed by law.
ART. 153. No one is bound to accuse himself in criminal matters.
ART. 154. The military and ecclesiastic remain subject to the same laws and tribunals as heretofore.
ART. 155. No suit can be instituted, either for civil or criminal injury, without previous demand in conciliation.
ART. 156. No one can be deprived of the right of terminating his differences before arbitrators chosen by each party, in every stage of the cause.
