Premodern Japanese law
I am reading my readings for tomorrow's exam for the first time. Interesting bits! :D
"In the trials of the Kamakura Period, documentary evidence and testimony by witnesses were carefully weighed by the Magistrate in arriving at his verdict, but in the absence of such evidence or witnesses, the disputants were required to swear to the gods that their claims were true. The outcome was then decided by whether some ill omen befell a disputants in the following 7 days. Among such signs were nosebleeding, sickness, choking while eating, the occurrence of misfortune among relatives and being wet by a crow or a kite."
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