[44] Atkyns, Rep. Vol. I p. 37, Omichund versus Barker.
[45] Digest. Lib. XXII. Tit. 5.
[46] Calvinus, voce Præsumptio.
[47] Bartolus.
[48] Lib. II. Obs. 149, § 9.
[49] Lib. I. Obs. 91, § 7.
[50] Antiqua jurisprudentia aspera quidem illa, tenebricosa, et tristis, non tam in æquitate quam in verborum superstitione fundata, eaque Ciceronis ætatem fere attigit, mansitque annos circiter CCCL. Quæ hanc excepit, viguitque annos fere septuaginta novem, superiori longe humanior; quippe quæ magis utilitate communi, quam potestate verborum, negotia moderaretur.—Gravina, p. 86.
[51] Omichund v. Barker, Atk. I.
[52] Gaill, Lib. II. Obs. 20, § 5.
[53] N.B.—In some criminal cases also, though not of treason, husband is admitted to prove an assault upon his wife, for the King, ruled by Raymond, Chief-Justice, Trin. 11th Geo., King v. Azire. And for various other exceptions see Buller's Nisi Prius, 286, 287.