Corsned

In old English law. A piece of barley bread, which, after the pronunciation of certain imprecations, a person accused of crime was compelled to swallow. A piece of cheese or bread of about an ounce weight was consecrated, with an exorcism desiring of the Almighty that it might cause convulsions and paleness, and find no passage, if the man was really guilty, but might turn to health and nourishment if he was innocent. Spelman. It was then given to the suspected person, who at the same time received the sacrament. If he swallowed it easily, he was esteemed innocent. If it choked him, he was esteemed guilty. See 4 Sharswood, Bl. Comm. 345.

In Old English Law. A piece of barley bread, which, after the pronunciation of certain imprecations, a person accused of crime was compelled to swallow. A piece of cheese or bread of about an ounce weight was consecrated with an exorcism desiring of the Almighty that it might cause convulsions and paleness, and find no passage, if the man was really guilty, but might turn to health and nourishment if he was innocent. Spelman, Gloss. 439. It was then given to the suspected person, who at the same time received the sacrament. If he swallowed it easily, he was esteemed innocent; if it choked him, he was esteemed guilty. See 4 Bla. Com. 345.

Iii Saxon law. The morsel of execration; a species of ordeal performed by eating a piece of barley bread with certain rites, upon which the accused was deemed guilty or not according as the bread stuck in his throat or not

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.

sax. The morsel of execration; a piece of barley bread given to an accused with solemn oaths and incantations. If it stuck in his throat, he was deemed guilty. Cosinage,/?-. Collateral relationship. An old writ lying for an heir against one who entered the land of a great-great-grandfather (tresayle) or distant collateral relation, cf. Aiel. Costs " de incremento," I. Costs of increase; adjudged by the court in addition to tho^se fouiid*by the jury.

[from Sax. cors, a curse, and sned, a cake or piece of bread.] In Saxon law. The morsel of execration; (panis conjuratus; offa execrata.) A species of ordeal in use among the Saxons, performed by eating a piece of bread over which the priest had pronounced a certain imprecation. If the accused ate it freely, he was pronounced innocent; but if it stuck in his throat, it was considered as a proof of his guilt. Crabb's Hist. Eng. Law, 30. 1 Reeves' Hist. 21. 4 Bl. Com. 346. Spelman.