Archbishop of Antivari and Dioklea (Bar, Montenegro)  July August 1202
Similiter sub excommunicatione prohibemus ne aliquis laicus clericum ad peregrina iudicia trahere praesumat, veluti candentis ferri vel aque vel cuiuslibet alterius iudicii. Non enim pertinet ad laicum clericum iudicare.

Die Register Innocenz' III. 2: 2. Pontifikatsjahr, ed. Othmar Hageneder, Werner Maleczek, and Alfred A. Strnad. (Publikationen des Historischen Instituts beim Österreichischen Kulturinstitut in Rom; Wien: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1979) no. 169.326-330.

Archbishop of Besançon November 13, 1202

Eos (clericos) ad saecularia pertrahere iudicia non formidant, et examen aque frigide, ignisque candentis, vetitumque duellum subire compellunt, nullatenus attendentes, sacros canones non censere confessionem a quolibet per hujusmodi extorquendam.

Die Register Innocenz' III. 5: 5. Pontifikatsjahr, 1202/1203, ed.  Andrea Sommerlechner with Christoph Egger and Herwig Weigl  (Publikationen des Historischen Instituts beim  Österreichischen Kulturinstitut in Rom; Wien: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1994) no. 106(107) pp. 214-215. 

Comita, Judge of Torres  Sardinia  July 3, 2004

Cumque candentis ferri et aque frigide ac similia iudicia lex canonica non admittat, benedicere ac interesse talibus compelluntur miseri sacerdotes, et si compellentibus parere noluerint, a curatoribus, in quorum habitant jurisdictione, poena pecuniaria percelluntur.

Die Register Innocenz' III. 7: 7. Pontifikatsjahr, 1204/1205, ed. Othmar Hageneder, Andrea Sommerlechner, with the collaboration of Christoph Egger and Rainer Murauer (Publikationen des Historischen Instituts beim  Österreichischen Kulturinstitut in Rom.  Wien: Verlag der  Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1997) no. 113 pp. 176-178

Evandro Putzulu, "Comita," Dizionario biografico degli italiani 27 (1982) 600-602

Robert Bartlett, Trial by Fire and Water: The Medieval Judicial Ordeal (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986) 100: <Lateran c.8> was not a belated recognition of a long process of withering away.  It was a policy decision."

 

Finbarr McAuley, "Canon Law and the End of the Ordeal," Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 26 (2006) 473-513 at 501:  "Quoniam contra falsam (IV Lat. c. 38) appears to have been passed to deal with the problem of corrupt judges .   .   . a judge who opted to remit a case ad judicium Dei would have complied with the statute <Quoniam contra falsam>.

Charles Donahue, Jr. Review of García's Edition in Speculum: "<c.18>  was the death knell of a moribund institution."