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