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Fire-ordeal
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Judicium Dei
trials of undiscovered perpetrators of crimes; as those by arms and single combat; or by ordeals, as by fire or red-hot plough shares (see ORDEAL), which were founded on the belief that God would work a miracle
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Purgation
honest neighbours with him to make oath that they believed he swore truly; or vulgar, which was by fire or water ordeal, or by combat. See Jac. Law Dict.; 3 Bl. Com. 100.
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