Note 5 — Chapter VII · Wager of Law.
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3 Bl. Comm. 341; Spellman, L. b. 28, c. 13; Stiernh., de jure Sueon, 1. l. c. 9.
The clergy were no doubt responsible for the establishment of the practice in England, as it resembles the canonical purgation of the clergy, as well as the sacramentum decisionis, of the civil law. (3 Bl. Comm. 342.)