Fire Ordeal
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
In Saxon and di English law. The ordeal or trial by red^ hot iron; which was performed either by taking up in the hand a piece of red-hot iron, of one, two or three pounds weight, or by stepping barefoot and blindfolded over nine red-hot ploughshares laid length* wise at unequal distances.
4 Bl. Com, 348. Coweli.
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