[215] Anc. Coutume de Normandie, chap. lxxxv. (Bourdot de Richebourg, IV. 53-4).
[216] Recherches de la France, Liv. IV. chap. iii. Concerning the date of this, see La Croix du Maine, s. v. Estienne Pasquier.
[217] Fors et Cost. de Béarn, Rubr. de Juramentz (Bourdot de Richebourg, IV. 1082).
[218] Lo jurament deu seguidor se fé Juran per aquetz sanctz bertat ditz exi que io crey.
[219] E si gelo negare e non gelo quisier probar, devel’ facer salvo con once Fijosdalgo e èl doceno, que non lo fiço (Fuero Viejo de Castiella, Lib. I. Tit. v. 1. 12). It will be observed that this is an unqualified recognition of the system of negative proofs.
[220] Du Cange, s. v. Juramentum.
[221] Jur. Provin. Alaman. cap. xxiv.; cccix. § 4; cccxxix. §§ 2, 3; cccxxxix. § 3 (Edit. Schilteri).
[222] Jur. Provin. Saxon. Lib. I. c. 63.
[223] Sachsische Weichbild, art. 71, 72, 86, 40, 88.
[224] Goldast. Constitt. Imp. III. 446.