 | 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,... | |
 | William Herbert - 1804 - 454 pages
...liberam legem ; that is, to become infamous, and not be accounted liter ef legnlis houio, being supposed by the event to be proved forsworn, and therefore...witness in any cause." This is the form of a trial by battle, a trial which the tenant or defendant in a writ of right has it in his election at this day... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Perthensis - 1816 - 750 pages
...proved forfworn, and therefore: never to be put upon л jury, or admittedas a witnefs in any caule. This is the form of a trial by battel ; a trial which the tenant, or defendant in я writ of right, has it in his election, at this day to demand ; and which was the onlydecruont of... | |
 | 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... | |
 | James P. Gilchrist - 1821 - 404 pages
...event, to be forsworn ; and, therefore, in future, not eligible as a juryman, or in a condition to be admitted as a witness in any cause. This is the form of a trial by battle ; a trial, which the tenant or defendant, in a writ of right, has it in his election at this... | |
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This is the form of a trial by battle; a trial which the tenant, or defendant in a writ of right, has it in his election at this day to demand; and which was the only... 
