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Dei Judicium

A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891

A Dictionary of Law

Thejudgment of God. The old Saxon trial by ordeal, so called because it was thonght to be an appeal to God for the justice of a cause, and it was believed thal the decision was according to the will and pleasure of Divine Providence.

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