Note 80 — Chapter I
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Upland Court Records, 180. In another case of slander the court fined the defendant and ordered “that ye defendant openly shall declare him selfe a Lyar,” page 176. “In the Norman Custumal it is written that the man who has falsely called another ‘thief’ or ‘manslayer’ must pay damages, and, holding his nose with his fingers, must publicly confess himself a liar.” Pollock and Maitland History English Law, II, 537.