| 31. | Trials by ordeal became rarer over the Late Middle Ages, but the practice was discontinued only in the 16th century.
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| 32. | Borghild regarded these rumours as offensive, and voluntarily demanded to perform a trial by ordeal to prove that they were slander.
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| 33. | Frederick II ( 11941250 ) was the first king who explicitly outlawed trials by ordeal as they were considered irrational .
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| 34. | :: Trial by ordeal has a bad habit of leaving your best candidate maimed or, in the days before antibiotics, fatally wounded.
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| 35. | Following the Fourth Lateran Council, the civil and common law courts quickly moved to ban trial by ordeal and trial by combat.
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| 36. | The problem of the law is to give advantage to neither, but to let trial by ordeal of cross-examination distill the truth.
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| 37. | During the Middle Ages, crime and punishment were dealt with through blood feuds ( or trial by ordeal ) between the parties.
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| 38. | The separate King St Ladislaus in the V�rad Cathedral after his canonization in 1192 and trials by ordeal were also held there.
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| 39. | After King Inge died in April 1217, Inga successfully performed a trial by ordeal to prove her son's right of Bergen during 1234.
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| 40. | Elephants were occasionally used in trial by ordeal in which the condemned prisoner was released if he managed to fend off the elephant.
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