[148] Ibid. Book IX. chap. ii. § 6 (Ibid. II. 227).

[149] Dooms of Ine, cap. liii.

[150] Leg. Wallice, Lib. II. cap. xix. § 2 (Owen II. 842).

[151] Ea autem debita de quibus non constat, super mortuum probari debent, septima manu.—Jur. Provin. Alaman. cap. vii. § 2. (Ed. Schilter.)—Sachsische Weichbild art. 67.

[152] Nove Constitutiones Dom. Alberti, p. 38.

[153] “Quod in sacramentis supradictorum testium veritas absque ullo dolo versata est.”—Leon. PP. IV. Epist. 5 (Migne, CXV. 664).

[154] Lünig Cod. Ital. Diplom. II. 1955.

[155] Maitland, Select Pleas in Manorial and other Seignorial Courts, pp. 7, 10, 18, 32, 36, 37, 47, 83, 137, 140, 141, 142, 144, 151, 157, 173.

[156] Si burgensis calumniatus præteriit ætatem pugnandi, et hoc essoniaverit in sua responsione, non pugnabit. Sed juramento duodecim talium qualis ipse fuerit, se purgabit.—L. Burgorum cap. 24, §§ 1, 2.

[157] Concil. Remens. ann. 1119 (Harduin. VI. 1986).