Evidentiary means in feudal Transylvania. Ordeal By fire (holding a red-hot iron)
One of the evidentiary means used in medieval legal procedure was the so-called judgment of God, judicium dei, also known as ordeal, from the Latin term ordalium. Ordeals were characteristic of all peoples in their various stages of development. They were based on the belief that divinity could inte...
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2017-12-01
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| Series: | Journal of Legal Studies |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1515/jles-2017-0020 |