Note 44 — ENGLISH LAW BEFORE THE NORMAN CONQUEST
Reading edition
Cases from D. B. collected in Bigelow, Plac. A.-N. 40-44, 61. Even under Henry II. we find, in terms, such an offer, but it looks, in the light of the context, more like a rhetorical asseveration—in fact the modern “j’en mettrais ma main au feu”—than anything else: op. cit. 196.