[269] Omnis tihla tractetur antejuramento plano vel observato.—Ll. Henrici I. Tit. lxiv. § 1. Anlejuramentum a compellante habeatur, et alter se sexto decime sue purgetur; sicut accusator precesserit.—Ibid. Tit. lxvi. § 8.
[270] Prof. J. B. Thayer in Harvard Law Review, Vol. V. pp. 47-51.
[271] C. Tribur. ann. 895 c. xxii.
[272] For de Morlaas, Rubr. xxxviii. art. 63.
[273] Bracton. Lib. IV. Tract. vi. cap. 18, § 6.
[274] Statuta Susatensia, No. 10 (Hæberlin, Analecta Medii Ævi, p. 509).—The same provision is preserved in a later recension of the laws of Soest, dating apparently from the middle of the thirteenth century (Op. cit. p. 520).
[275] Jur. Provin. Alaman. cap. cccix. § 4 (Ed. Schilter).—Jur. Provin. Saxon. Lib. III. art. 88.—Sachsische Weichb. art. 115.
[276] Jur. Provin. Alaman. cap. cccxcviii. §§ 19, 20.
[277] Du Cange sub voce.
[278] Legg. Scan. Provin. Lib. V. c. 57 (Ed. Thorsen, p. 140).