This article discusses the use of ordeal as an evidentiary tool in court proceedings. It discusses in general terms the reasons for their use, their development and their prohibition in Christian Europe. It examines their importance in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, discovers which ordeals survived even in today’s Lithuanian court proceedings, and discusses the hypothetical perspectives for the implementation of ordeals in the current legal system of Lithuania.
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