Quod si appellatum vinci contigeret, omni
Re privaretur et turpi morte periret.
Guillielmi Brito. Phillippidos Lib. VIII.
It will be observed that the pre-existing Norman custom here described is precisely that indicated above by Glanville.
[540] E. g. Établissements Lib. I. cap. 27 and 91.—“Cil qui seroit vaincus seroit pendus” (cap. 82).
[541] Beaumanoir, chap. lxiv. § 10.
[542] Assises d’Antioche, Haute Cour, ch. xi.; Assises des Bourgeois, ch. vi. vii. See also Assises de Jerusalem, cap. 317.
[543] Recta fides et æquitas et jus armorum volunt ut appellans eandem incurrat pœnam quam defendens, si is victus fuerit et subactus.—Formula Duelli, apud Spelman. Glossar. s. v. Campus.
[544] Jur. Provin. Saxon. Lib. I. c. 63.—Jur. Provin. Alamann. cap. ccclxxxvi. §§ 19, 20 (Ed. Schilter.).
[545] Sachsische Weichbild, 82.—Jur. Provin. Alamann. cap. clxviii. § 20; clxxii. § 18 (Ed. Senckenberg.).