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

by Henry Charles Lea

[1802] Ibid. loc. cit.

[1803] Nicolas, p. 164.

[1804] Chabot, Encyclopédie Monastique, p. 426 (Paris, 1827). For instances see Angeli Rumpheri Hist. Formbach. Lib. II. (Pez, I. III. 446).—A. Molinier in Vaissette, Ed. Privat, IX. 417.

[1805] “Ita torquatur ut nec plagam referat nec color cutis livescat.”—Grágás, Festathattr cap. xxxiii.

[1806] Grágás, Vigslothi cap. cxi.

[1807] Ibid. Vigslothi cap. lxxxviii.

[1808] Schlegel Comment. ad Grágás § xxix.

[1809] Legg. Cimbric. Woldemari Lib. II. cap. i. xl. (Ed. Ancher, Hafniæ, 1783).

[1810] Christiani V. Jur. Danic. Lib. I. cap. xx. (Ed. Weghorst, Hafniæ, 1698). Senckenberg (Corp. Jur. German. T. I. Præf. p. lxxxvi.) gives the chapter heads of a code in Danish, the Keyser Retenn, furnished to him by Ancher, in which cap. iv. and v. contain directions as to the administration of torture. The code is a mixture of German, civil, and local law, and probably was in force in some of the Germanic provinces of Denmark.

[1811] Legg. Opstalbomicæ ann. 1323 (ap. Gärtner, Saxonum Leges Tres. Lipsiæ, 1730).