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A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891

A Dictionary of Law

In Saxon law. The morsel of execration. A species of ordeal in use among the Saxons, performed by eating a picce of bread over which the priest had pronounced a certuin imprecation. if the acctised ate it freely, he was pronounced innocént; but, if it stuck in his throat, it was considered ag a proof of his guilt.

Crabb, Eng. Law, 30; 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 21; 4 Bl. Comm. 545.