  I. THE WAGER OF LAW. CHAPTER I. RESPONSIBILITY OF THE KINDRED. II. THE WAGER OF BATTLE. CHAPTER I. III. THE ORDEAL. CHAPTER I. UNIVERSAL INVOCATION OF THE JUDGMENT OF GOD. IV. TORTURE. CHAPTER I. TORTURE IN EGYPT AND ASIA. Title: Superstition and Force Essays on The Wager of Law--The Wager of Battle--The Ordeal--Torture Author: Henry Charles Lea Language: English Character set encoding: UTF-8 E-text prepared by deaurider, Les Galloway, |
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SUPERSTITION AND FORCE.
ESSAYS ON
THE WAGER OF LAW—THE WAGER OF BATTLE—THE ORDEAL—TORTURE.
BY
HENRY CHARLES LEA, LL.D.
Plurima est et in omni jure civili, et in pontificum libris, et in XII. tabulis, antiquitatis effigies.—Cicero, de Oratore I. 43.
FOURTH EDITION, REVISED.
PHILADELPHIA:
LEA BROTHERS & CO.
1892.
Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1892, by
HENRY C. LEA,
in the Office of the Librarian of Congress. All rights reserved.
COLLINS PRINTING HOUSE.
