Hostiensis Aureæ Summæ Lib. V. Tit. De Purgat. canon. § 4.
[104] Ibid. § 5.
[105] Quoniam Attachiamenta cap. xxiv. §§ 1, 4; cap. lxxv. §§ 1, 4. In another subsequent code, in simple cases of theft, when the accuser had no testimony to substantiate his claim, thirty conjurators were necessary, of whom three must be nobles (Regiam Majestatem Lib. IV. c. 21). For the disputed date of the Regiam see Neilson, Trial by Combat, ch. 30.
[106] Leg. Burgorum cap. xxiv. §§ 1, 3.
[107] Anomalous Laws, Book XIII. chap. ii. § 94 (Owen II. 521).
[108] Gwentian Code, Bk. II. chap. vii. § 10 (Ibid. I. 701).
[109] Anomalous Laws, Bk. IX. chap. ii. § 4; chap. xx. § 12; chap. xxi. § 3.—Book XIV. chap. xxxviii. § 16.—Book V. chap. ii. § 112 (Ibid. II. 225, 261, 709, 83).
Under the primitive Venedotian Code (Book III. chap. i. §§ 13, 19) only twelve men were required, one-half to be nod-men, two-thirds of paternal, and one-third of maternal kin; while in the Gwentian Code (Book II. chap. ii. § 10) and in the Dimetian Code (Book II. chap. iii. § 10, Book III. chap. i. § 24), fifty are prescribed.
The nod men, as will be seen hereafter, were conjurators who took a special form of oath.
[110] Anomalous Laws, Book XIV. chap. xxxviii. § 16; Book IX. chap. xx. § 12; chap. xxi. § 1.