Corsned
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.