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Writ De Hæretico Comburendo

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Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

In English law. The name of a writ formerly Issued by the secular courts, for the execution, by burning, of a man who had been convicted in the ecclesiastical courts of heresy.