Download or read book Legal Procedure and Practice in Medieval Denmark written by Per Andersen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-05-23 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a comprehensive examination of how the Fourth Lateran Council’s prohibition against trial by ordeal was implemented in Danish secular law and how it required both a fundamental restructuring of legal procedure and an entirely different approach to jurisprudence in practice.