In English law. The name of a writ formerly Issued by the secular courts, for theexecution, by burning, of a man who had been convicted in the ecclesiastical courts ofheresy.
WRIT DE HiERETICO COMBUBENDO
In English law. The name of a writ formerly Issued by the secular courts, for theexecution, by burning, of a man who had been convicted in the ecclesiastical courts ofheresy.