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Trial by Ordeal Trial by Ordeal
trial by ordeal was used to decide the guilt or innocence of a suspected criminal by invoking divine justice. There were several forms of ordeal in Anglo-Saxon and Norman England. In one the accused held a red hot iron or put his hand in a flame. The hand was then bound up and examined after several... Read more
oyer and terminer oyer and terminer
oyer and terminer. After the Assizes of Clarendon and Northampton, the commission of oyer and terminer was issued to the travelling justices to visit the shire and to receive the presentments of those suspected of crime in each hundred. They were instructed to hear and determine (oyer and terminer)... Read more
Nevil Shute Nevil Shute
Nevil Shute (Nevil Shute Norway), 1899-1960, English novelist, b. Ealing, Middlesex, grad. Oxford, 1922. After serving in World War I, he was manager of a construction company until 1938. He fought also in World War II and emigrated to Australia in 1950. Shute wrote 26 novels and was one the... Read more
peine forte et dure peine forte et dure
peine forte et dure. After the Lateran Council of the church in 1215 forbade the clergy to take part in ordeals, the king's justices had no means of trying the guilt or innocence of suspected criminals. After a number of experiments they developed the trial jury of twelve men to decide. Since this... Read more
Ananias Ananias
Ananias [Gr.,=Heb. Ananiah and Hananiah ]. 1 In the Acts of the Apostles , man who, with his wife Sapphira, held back part of a gift to the early Jerusalem church and lied about it. They were rebuked by Peter and fell dead. The name has become a term for liar. 2 High priest at Jerusalem (AD... Read more
Bernard Bailyn Bernard Bailyn
Bernard Bailyn , 1922-, U.S. historian, b. Hartford, Conn. After receiving his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1953, he taught (1953-93; emeritus 1993-) U.S. colonial history there, becoming full professor in 1961. He won the Pulitzer Prize twice: first for his book The Ideological Origins of the American... Read more
Milarepa Milarepa
Milarepa , 1040-1143, saint and poet of Tibetan Buddhism . He was the second patriarch of the Kargyupa sect, the first being Milarepa's guru Marpa (1012-97), who studied under Naropa, the Bengali master of Tantra, at Nalanda. Milarepa's autobiography recounts how in his youth he practiced black... Read more
duel duel
duel prearranged armed fight with deadly weapons, usually swords or pistols, between two persons concerned with a point of honor. The duel may have originated in the wager of battle, an early mode of trial in which an accused person fought with his accuser under judicial supervision (see ordeal ).... Read more
ordeal ordeal
ordeal ancient legal custom whereby an accused person was required to perform a test, the outcome of which decided the person's guilt or innocence. By an ordeal, appeal was made to divine authority to decide the guilt or innocence of one accused of a crime or to choose between disputants. This... Read more
William Falconer William Falconer
William Falconer , 1732-69, Scottish poet. The victim of a shipwreck off Greece, he described his ordeal in a long, didactic poem, The Shipwreck (1762). He also wrote (1769) a source book on shipping and naval practices.... Read more

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