Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Trial by ordeal was an ancient judicial practice by which the guilt or innocence of ... Issues of Subjectivity and Rationality in the Medieval Ordeal by Hot Iron" (PDF).
The only trial available to the defendant remained the traditional trial by ordeal, specifically in the Assize of Clarendon, "the ordeal of water". [2] Nevertheless, Henry did not put much faith in the results of the ordeal. The unfortunate felon who was convicted through the ordeal was typically executed.
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Trial by ordeal (9 P) W. War crimes trials (7 C, ... Summary jury trial; T. Trial at bar; Trial by ordeal;
Compurgation, also called trial by oath, wager of law, and oath-helping, was a defence used primarily in medieval law. A defendant could establish his innocence or nonliability by taking an oath and by getting a required number of persons, typically twelve, to swear they believed the defendant's oath.
In Anglo-Saxon law, corsned (OE cor, "trial, investigation", + snǽd, "bit, piece"; Latin panis conjuratus), also known as the accursed or sacred morsel, or the morsel of execration, was a type of trial by ordeal that consisted of a suspected person eating a piece of barley bread and cheese totalling about an ounce in weight and consecrated with a form of exorcism as a trial of his innocence.
Other forms of trial by ordeal vanished during the centuries before cruentation's demise, precisely because they (hubristically) effected divine judgement. [10] Cruentative procedures became increasingly stringent, [11] and in 1545, Antonius Blancus was the first to question the reliability of cruentation as a practice. [12]
Sassywood is an ancient West African form of trial by ordeal.Although it has been outlawed due to human rights concerns, it remains in sporadic use in Liberia. [1] [2] In sassywood, the necessary ordeal can take on many different forms.
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Pages in category "Trial by ordeal" ... Ordeal of the bitter water; S. Sandrembi and Chaisra;