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

by Henry Charles Lea

[1233] Hincmari Capit. Synod. ann. 852, II. xxi.

[1234] Hincmari Epist. xxxiv.

[1235] Capit. Car. Mag. ann. 794, § 7.

[1236] Se juratores non potuerit invenire, aut ad ineum ambulat aut, etc.—MS. Guelferbyt. Tit. XIV.

[1237] Quod si ... juratores invenire non potuerit, ad ignem seu ad sortem se excusare studeat.—L. Ripuar. Tit. xxxi. § 5.

[1238] Dooms of Edward the Elder, cap. iii. So also in the laws of William the Conqueror, Tit. I. cap. xiv.—“Si sen escundira sei duzime main. E si il auer nes pot, si sen defende par juise.” The collection known by the name of Henry I. has a similar provision, cap. lxvi. § 3.

[1239] Radevic. de Reb. Frid. Lib. I. cap. xxvi. This was an old feature of the Barbarian codes which continued till late in the Middle Ages. See ante, p. 22.

[1240] Concil. Tribur. ann. 895, can. xxii.

[1241] Yajnavalkya, II. 99.

[1242] Chart. Commun. Laudun. (Baluz. et Mansi IV. p. 39).