1. The ancient method of trial by ordeal demanded that the accused submit himself to the test of fire or of water.

2. Trial by ordeal is illegal in most most places.

3. Trial by ordeal was common in England in the middle ages.

4. It's a pseudo - psychological trial by ordeal in which the contestants trade candor for dollars.

5. Judicium Dei, or trial by ordeal, is a widespread legal procedure in medieval European.

6. Because a state may dispense with a jury trial, it does not follow that it may substitute trial by ordeal.

7. Since no representative of the Almighty to whom the settlement of the question had been submitted was available, trial by ordeal vanished, to be replaced with trial by jury.