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

by Henry Charles Lea

[918] Asiatic Researches, I. 395.

[919] Lieut. Shaw, in Asiatic Researches, IV. 69.

[920] Capit. Carol. Mag. II. ann. 803, cap. 5.

[921] Concil. Risbach. can. ix. (Hartzheim Concil. German. II. 692).

[922] L. Anglior. et Werinor. Tit. xiv.

[923] Si presbyterum occidit ... si liber est cum XII. juret; si autem servus per xii. vomeres ignitos se purget.—C. Mogunt, ann. 848 c. xxiv.

[924] Concil. Triburiens. ann. 895 c. 22 (Harduin. Concil. VI. I. 446).

[925] Laws of Ethelred, iv. § 6.

[926] The Jus Provin. Alaman. (cap. xxxvii. §§ 15, 16; cap. clxxxvi. §§ 4, 6, 7; cap. ccclxxiv.) allows thieves and other malefactors to select the ordeal they prefer. The Jus Provin. Saxon. (Lib. I. art. 39) affords them in addition the privilege of the duel.

[927] Après les serements des parties soloit lon garder la partie, et luy porter a la maine une piece de fer flambant sil fuit frank home, ou de mettre le main ou la pié en eaw boillant s’il ne fuit frank.—Myrror of Justice, cap. III. sect. 23.—Cf. Glanville, Lib. XIV. c. I.