This is the most brutal divorce rule in history

Germanic law in the Middle Ages allowed for divorce by combat. Before the invention of divorce courts, couples who sought to separate had a few months to work out their differences between themselves.

If they could not, they would settle their marriage in the arena — complete with a codified set of rules that governed how each person could fight.

While women had free movement around the arena, men had to stand in a waist-deep pit with one arm tied behind their back. Women fought with stones wrapped in cloth, while men were allowed to use three clubs, but they forfeited one every time they touched the sides of the pit with their hand or arm.

If the man lost the fight, he would be publicly executed. If the woman lost the fight, she would be buried alive. 

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