Judicium Dei

Lat. Inold English and European law. The judgment of God; otherwise called “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 eucharist, and the corsned, and the ducilum or trial by battle, (qg. v.,) it being supposed that the interposition of heaven was directly manifest, in these cases, in behalf of the innocent. Spelman; Burrill. Judicium est quasi juris dictum. Judgment is, as it were, a declaration of law. Judicium non debet esse illusorium; suum effectum habere debet. A judgment ought not to be illusory; it ought to have its proper effect. 2 Inst. 341,

The judgof God. The English law formerly impiously called the judgon trials by ordeal, by battle, the like, the judgments of God.