- writ de haeretico comburendo
- /rit diy hsretakow kombsrendow/
Black's law dictionary. HENRY CAMPBELL BLACK, M. A.. 1990.
writ de haeretico comburendo
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haeretico comburendo — /haretakow kombyarendow/ The English statute 2 Hen. IV, c. 15, de haeretico comburendo, was the first penal law enacted against heresy, and imposed the penalty of death by burning against all heretics who relapsed or who refused to abjure their… … Black's law dictionary
haeretico comburendo — /haretakow kombyarendow/ The English statute 2 Hen. IV, c. 15, de haeretico comburendo, was the first penal law enacted against heresy, and imposed the penalty of death by burning against all heretics who relapsed or who refused to abjure their… … Black's law dictionary
de haeretico comburendo — /diy haretakow komb(y)arendow/ (Lat. For burning a heretic.) An ancient writ which formerly issued from the secular courts for the execution, by burning, of a heretic, who had been convicted in the ecclesiastical courts of heresy, had abjured,… … Black's law dictionary
de haeretico comburendo — /diy haretakow komb(y)arendow/ (Lat. For burning a heretic.) An ancient writ which formerly issued from the secular courts for the execution, by burning, of a heretic, who had been convicted in the ecclesiastical courts of heresy, had abjured,… … Black's law dictionary
writ — A written judicial order to perform a specified act, or giving authority to have it done, as in a writ of mandamus or certiorari, or as in an original writ for instituting an action at common law. A written court order or a judicial process,… … Black's law dictionary
de haeretico comburendo — For burning a heretic,–a writ issuing only by special direction of the king for causing one convicted of heresy to be burned to death. See 4 Bl Comm 46 … Ballentine's law dictionary
