Which of the following is NOT true of medieval law?
a. Medieval jurists argued for the replacement of trials by ordeals of fire or water.
b. Church jurists structured canon law into a coherent and rational system.
c. God's law was considered to be subordinate to state or national decrees.
d. English common law had its origins in the Middle Ages.
e. Medieval jurists insisted that marriages based on fraud or duress could be invalidated.
c
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