Judicium

Lat. Judicial authority or jurisdiction; a court or tribunal; a judicial hearing or other proceeding; a verdict or judgment; a proceeding before a judex or judge. State v. Whitford, 54 Wis. 150, 11 N. W. 424.

— Judicium capitale. In old English law. Judgment of death; capital judgment. Fleta, lib. 1, c. 39, § 2. Calied, also, "judicium vitas amissionis," judgment of loss of life. Id. lib. 2, c. 1, § 5.

— Jndicium Dei. In old English and European law. The judgment of God; otherwise calied "divinum judicium," the "divine judgment." A term particularly applied to the ordeals by fire or hot iron and water, and also to the trials by the cross, the eucbarfst, and the corsned, and the duellum or trial by battle, (q. v.,) it being supposed that the interposition of heaven was directly manifest, in these cases, in behalf of the innocent. Spelman; Burrill.

— Judicium parium. In old English law. Judgment of the peers; judgment of one's peers; trini by jury. Magna Charta, c. 29.