The Search for Truth in the Civil Trial. The truth apprehended by the civil trial through judicial syllogism is different from the one sought out in other fields, especially regarding History, as it implies the application of a rule of law to contentious facts. Contemporary civil proceeding texts were meant to fight against the traditional notion of a relative judicial truth by conferring on the judge the power to intercede in establishing the contentious subject while also reinforcing his major role in the qualification of the facts. Nevertheless, faithful to ancestral principles, the judge too often refuses to take into account the development of his task. He uses sparingly his prerogative with regard to the proof, and thus denies any ob...