| William Blackstone - 1791 - 506 pages
...infamous, and not be accounted liber et legalis homo ; being fuppofcd by the event to be proved forfworn, and therefore never to be put upon a jury or admitted as a witnefs in any caufe. THIS is the form of a trial by battel ; a trial which the tenant, or defendant... | |
| William Blackstone - 1794 - 588 pages
...infamous, and not be accounted libtr et legalit homo : being fuppofed by the event to be provcJ forfworn, and therefore never to be put upon a jury or admitted as a witnefs in any caufe. - _ THIS is the form of a trial by battel; a trial which die tenant, or defendant... | |
| Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - 1797 - 430 pages
...and not to be accounted liber et legalis homo ; being fuppofed by the event to be proved forfworn, and therefore never to be put upon a jury, or admitted as a witnefs in any caufe. This is the form of a trial by battel ; a trial which the tenant, or defendant... | |
| William Blackstone - 1800 - 568 pages
...and not be accounted liber et legalis home .• being fuppofed by the event to be proved forfworn, and therefore never to be put upon a jury or admitted as a witnefs in any caufe. P 34* ] 'f H1S '••i tne f"*'ni of a tr"l by battel ; a trial which the tenant,... | |
| 1816 - 740 pages
...a;;J not 10 be accounted Tibif rt Icgaiis homo ; being fuppofed by the event to be proved forfworn, and therefore never to be put upon a jury, or admitted as a witnrfs in any cnnib. This is the form of a trial by battel ; .1 trial which the tenant, or defendant... | |
| Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1816 - 518 pages
...longer accounted liber et logalis homo ; and being by the event supposed to be forsworn, he was never put upon a jury, or admitted as a witness in any cause. It is to this custom that our poet here alludes. See Blackstone's Commentaries, vol. iii, p. 337, and... | |
| John Adolphus - 1818 - 762 pages
...jnfamous, and not be accounted liber et legalis homo ; being fuppofed by the event to be proved forfworn, and therefore never to be put upon a jury, or admitted as a witnefs in nny caufe. This is the form of trial by battel ; a trial which the tenant, or defendant... | |
| Richard Warner - 1824 - 364 pages
...legem, that *' is, to become infamous, and not be ac" counted liber et legalis homo ; being sup" posed by the event to be proved forsworn, " and therefore...witness in any cause. : " This is the form of a trial by battel ; a trial •" which the tenant or defendant in a writ of " right, has it in his election at... | |
| sir William Blackstone - 1825 - 568 pages
...coat of Shawel, who was the bishop's champion, several rolls of 'orisons, and sortileges.' " sworn, and therefore never to be put upon a jury or admitted as a witness in any cause. [ 341 ] THIS is the form of a trial by battel; a trial which the tenant, or defendant in a writ of... | |
| Sir Thomas Edlyne Tomlins - 1835 - 854 pages
...word, he is condemned as a recreant to become infamous, and not to be accounted liber el legalis homo; being supposed by the event to be proved forsworn,...upon a jury, or admitted as a witness in any cause. S. Comm. 340. CHAMPION OF THE KING, campioregis.] An ancient officer, whose office it is at the coronation... | |
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