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Superstition and Force

Note 539 — Chapter VI · REGULATIONS OF THE JUDICIAL COMBAT.

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... ad poenas exigat æquas, Victus ut appellans sive appellatus, eadem Lege ligaretur mutilari aut perdere vitam. Moris enim extiterit apud illos hactenus, ut si Appellans victus in causa sanguinis esset, Sex solidos decies cum nummo solveret uno Et sic impunis, amissa lege, maneret: Quod si appellatum vinci contigeret, omni Re privaretur et turpi morte periret.

Guillielmi Brito. Phillippidos Lib. VIII.

It will be observed that the pre-existing Norman custom here described is precisely that indicated above by Glanville.

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