#confession

• Augsburg — A major historical city in southwestern Bavaria, Germany, founded by the Romans in 15 BC as Augusta Vindelicorum. It is one of Germany's oldest cities, famous as a Renaissance financial hub, for the 1530 Augsburg Confession, and for its unique medieval water management system protected by UNESCO.
• Self-accusation — An accusation or incrimination that a person brings upon themselves, formally or informally; a statement or act asserting one's own guilt. In psychopathology, it represents a symptom frequently encountered in melancholic or depressive states, where it often takes on a delusional character.
• Self-denunciation — The action by which a person presents themselves on their own initiative before criminal investigation bodies or judicial authorities to confess a crime or an illicit act that they personally committed or participated in, before it is discovered. In structural procedural terms, it represents a cause for sentence reduction or impunity according to the penal code.
• To self-denounce — To present oneself on one's own initiative before criminal investigation bodies or competent judicial authorities to confess and assume the commission of one's own crime or illicit act, before it is known or discovered by the state. This structural procedural act is carried out by the perpetrator out of remorse or to benefit from substantial reductions in the sentence provided by law.
• Self-denounced — Having denounced oneself voluntarily and on one's own initiative before judicial authorities or criminal investigation bodies for committing one's own crime, before the act was discovered by state organs. In a procedural sense, it describes the structural status of a perpetrator who resorted to a full confession to benefit from clemency or impunity.
• To avow — To recognize a deed, an obligation, a debt, or a truth before a court of law or an official authority; to confess or admit the validity of a legal document or claim. The term represents a modern borrowing from French (avouer) used in 19th-century legal and administrative language, later completely replaced by the verbs 'to recognize' or 'to confess'.
• Avowal — The act of avowing and its result; official recognition, formal confession, or admission of a state of facts, a contractual obligation, or the validity of a document before a court of law. This legal term of French origin was used in 19th-century legislation and civil procedures, designating the consensual validation of a claim expressed by the opposing party.