神判：一种过去使用的刑事审判方式，被告的有罪或无罪是通过进行危险或痛苦的测试（如水下浸泡）来确定的，被认为是由神控制的。
a primitive method of determining a person's guilt or innocence by subjecting the accused person to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under divine control; escape was usually taken as a sign of innocence
同义词： ordeal
... trouble 困难 affliction 痛苦 trial by ordeal 神断法 ...
神明裁判
Since no representative of the Almighty to whom the settlement of the question had been submitted was available, trial by ordeal vanished, to be replaced with trial by jury.
由于没有能够受理并解决争议的上帝代言人，神明裁判就此消亡，取而代之的是陪审团裁判。
While his reforms were more for his political expediency than to empower the people, they actually gave birth to the English Common Law, which replaced feudal practices such as trial by ordeal.