Superstition and Force / Essays on the Wager of Law, the Wager of Battle, the Ordeal, Torture

by Henry Charles Lea

[686] Traité de 1228, art. 3 (Esneaux, Hist. de Russie, II. 272).

[687] Belitz de Duellis Germanorum, p. 9. Vitembergæ, 1717.

[688] Constit. Frid II. de Jur. Norimb. § 4 (Goldast. Constit. Imp. I. 291).

[689] Sachsische Weichbild, Art. xxxv. lxxii. lxxxi.-lxxxiv. lxxxix. xc. xcii. cxiv.

[690] Henke, Gesch. des Deut. Peinlichen Rechts I. 192 (Du Boys, op. cit. II. 590).

[691] Goldast. op. cit. I. 314.

[692] Jur. Cæsar. P. IV. cap. i. (Senckenberg Corp. Jur. German. I. 118). This portion of the Kayser-Recht is probably therefore posterior to the rise of the Hapsburg dynasty.

[693] Belitz de Duel. German. p. 11.

[694] Jura Primæva Moraviæ, Brunæ, 1781, pp. 33, 102.

[695] “Liber adversus Legem Gundobadi” and “Liber contra Judicium Dei” (Agobardi Opp. Ed. Baluz I. 107, 301). Both of these works display marked ability, and a spirit of enlightened piety, mingled with frequent absurdities which show that Agobard could not in all things rise superior to his age. One of his favorite arguments is that the battle ordeal was approved by the Arian heretic Gundobald, whom he stigmatizes as “quidam superbus ac stultus hæreticus Gundobadus Burgundionum rex.”