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32 A new general civil and criminal law shall be caused to be published by the first, or, if this be not possible, by the second ordinary National Assembly. In the mean time the present laws of the Kingdom shall remain in vigour, as far as they are not inconsistent with this fundamental law or the provisional ordinances which in the mean time might be issued. The present permanent taxes shall likewise remain untill the next National Assembly.

No dispensations, no bilis of protection, no letters of respite or restitutions must be granted after the new general law has been published.

Nobody may be judged but by virtue of a law, or be punished but pursuant to a judgment.

Torture must not be inflicted.

No law must be retroactive.

Perquisites due to the officers of the courts of justice must not be attended with taxes to the treasury.

Nobody must be imprisoned but in cases appointed by the law and in the manner determined by the same. Whoever