Note 119 — Book II.
John Beames translation
Our author seems to allude to the punishment inflicted on the conquered Champion—such Champion’s cowardice being esteemed a species of perjury, as Lord Coke informs us, with which the perjury of the Jurors in the assise was commensurate. The same principle pervades the Norman Code—Omnes autem illi, qui perjurio vel læsione fidei sunt infames, ab hoc etiam sunt repellendi; et omnes illi qui in bello succubuerunt. (Le Grand Custum. de Normand. c. 62.)