[22] Roisin, Franchises, etc. de la ville de Lille, pp. 106-7.
[23] Charta Balduini Hannoniens. (Martene, Collect. Ampliss. I. 964.)
[24] Capitul. Lib. IV. cap. 15.
[25] Concil. Tribur. an. 895, can. iv.
[26] Dimetian Code, Bk. II. chap. i. § 32.
[27] Venedotian Code, Bk. III. chap. i. § 21.
[28] The oath may be regarded as the foundation of Roman legal procedure—“Dato jurejurando non aliud quæritur, quam an juratum sit; remissa quæstione an debeatur; quasi satis probatum sit jurejurando”—L. 5, § 2, D. XII. ii. The jusjurandum necessarium could always be administered by the judge in cases of deficient evidence, and the jusjurandum in jure proffered by the plaintiff to the defendant was conclusive: “Manifestæ turpitudinis et confessionis est nolle nec jurare nec jusjurandum referre”—Ibid. l. 38.
[29] Ll. Wisigoth. Lib. II. Tit. ii. c. 5.
[30] Concil. Valentin. ann. 855, c. xi.
[31] Ll. Ripuar. Tit. XII. § 1; ix. 17.—Capit. Ludov. Pii. ann. 819 add. ad L. Salicam, c. 15.—Capitul. L. IV. c. 29.—Ivonis Decr. XVI. 239.