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DE HSRETICO COMBURENDO Definition & Legal Meaning

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(Lat. For burning a heretic.) A writ which lay where a heretic had been convicted of heresy, had abjured, and had relapsed into heresy. It is said to be very ancient. Fitzh. Nat Brev. 209; 4 Bl. Comm. 40.

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