Note 788 — MAGNA CARTA. (continued 4)
Reading edition
See Thayer, Evidence, 37, n. for a case of 1291, where “ad legem manifestam” can only mean trial by combat. The Statute of Westminster I. (3 Edward I. c. 12) described men refusing to put themselves on a jury’s verdict, “come ceaus qui refusent la commune ley de la terre.”