Note 106 — Book II.
John Beames translation
Status integritati tam salubriter. Our Author alludes to the consequences that befel the conquered champion: he lost his life, or his law &c. But, in losing his law, his condition or state in society, as a civil character, was affected, being no longer capable of waging the Duel for another &c. The Assise, says he, is so regardful of the lives of men—of their condition, as civil Beings, that it exposes neither the one nor the other to any danger.
The whole chapter is sufficiently crabbed and quaint: indeed, the most difficult parts of the whole work are those in which the author has aimed at being elegant.
This observation applies with particular force to our Author’s Preface.