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The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part A.

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34.] [*** LL.Longob.lib.ii.tit.

55, cap.

23, apud Lindenbrog.p.

661] [**** See Desfontaines and Beaumanoir.] [***** Sometimes the laws fixed easy general rules for weighing the credibility of witnesses.

A man whose life was estimated at a hundred and twenty shillings, counterbalanced six ceorles, each of whose lives was only valued at twenty shillings, and his oath was esteemed equivalent to that of all the six.


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