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Trial by ordeal was an ancient judicial practice by which the guilt or innocence of the accused (called a "proband" [1]) was determined by subjecting them to a painful, or at least an unpleasant, usually dangerous experience.
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.
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.
The tangena ordeal was a form of trial by ordeal practiced in Madagascar to determine the guilt or innocence of an accused party. The trial utilized seeds of the tree species Cerbera manghas (family Apocynaceae), which produces seeds that contain highly toxic cardiac glycosides including cerberin and tanghinin.
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.
Sunday's gruesome burning death of a sleeping Brooklyn straphanger is raising questions over why bystanders did nothing -- with some citing the ordeal of acquitted subway vigilant Daniel Penny.
All three men face sexual battery charges and are awaiting trial; Fisherman is not accused of raping the woman. The woman confided in family and friends about the terrifying ordeal but said she ...
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]