[587] Glanvil. de Leg. Angl. Lib. II. iii. Thus in a suit over a knight’s fee in 1201, the plaintiffs offer a champion, Walter Wider, “qui idem optulit ut de visu suo et auditu.”—Baildon, Select Civil Pleas, I. 33.
[588] Cod. Leg. Norman. P. II. cap. lxiv. (Ludewig Reliq. MSS. VII. 416).
[589] Étab. de Normandie, p. 21 (Marnier).
[590] Assises d’Antioche, Haute Cour, ch. ix. xi. xii.; Assises des Bourgeois, ch. vi. vii.
[591] Assis. Hierosol. Bassa Corte, cap. ccxxxviii. (Canciani, II. 534).—Constit. Sicular. Lib. II. Tit. xxxvii. § 2.
[592] Neilson’s Trial by Combat, pp. 88, 90-1.
[593] Horne’s Myrror of Justice, cap. iii. § 23.
[594] Myrror of Justice, cap. iv. § 11.
[595] Cod. Leg. Norman. P. II. cap. lxiv. § 18 (Ludewig VII 417).
[596] Among the crimes entailing infamy is enumerated that of “ceux qui combatent mortelment pur loyer qui sont vanquish en combate joyné per jugement.”—Horne’s Myrror of Justice, cap. iv. sect. 13.