Chart Libertatum
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
These are Magna Charta and Charta de Foresta. Chartarum super fidem, mortuis testibus, ad patriam de necessitudine recurrendum est.
Co. Litt. 36.
The witnesses being dead, the truth of charters must of necessity be referred to the country, z. e., a jury.