[49] Canons and Decrees of the Council of Trent, Session xxv. 19, p. 274 sq.

[50] Pike, History of Crime in England, ii. 192.

[51] Hume, Commentaries on the Law of Scotland, ii. 281. Erskine, Principles of the Law of Scotland, p. 560.

[52] Truman, Field of Honor, p. 70.

[53] Isambert, Taillandier, and Decrusy, Recueil général des anciennes lois françaises, xv. 351 sq.

[54] Ibid. xvi. 21, 106, 146.

[55] Ibid. xvi. 176, 179.

[56] Storr, loc. cit. p. 512.

[57] Robertson, op. cit. i. 66.

[58] Günther, Die Idee der Wiedervergeltung, iii. 225, n. 467. Stephen, History of the Criminal Law of England, iii. 99 sqq. Gelli, Il duello, p. 21.