[495]. Cited by Nettleship, sub voc. Lex.

[496]. Just. Inst. i. 2. 4.

[497]. See Ducange, sub voc. Lex.

[498]. See Ducange, sub voc. Lex.

[499]. Ibid.

[500]. Ibid.

[501]. See Murray’s New English Dictionary, sub voc. Doom.

[502]. Thorpe, Ancient Laws and Institutes of England, vol. i. p. 55; Laws of King Alfred, sect. 49.

[503]. Ibid. sect. 43.

[504]. Ibid. vol. i. p. 273; Laws of King Edgar, Supplement, sect. 2. In Scottish legal procedure the word doom is still used in the sense of judgment; the death sentence is “pronounced for doom”: Miller’s Data of Jurisprudence, p. 292.