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A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
Inold Englishlaw
A word of dliserace and obloquy, pronounced on either champion, in the ancient trial by battle, proving recreant, 7. e., yielding. Glanville calls it “infestum et invereeundum verbum.” His condemnation was amittere liberam legem, t. e., to become infamous, and not tu be accounted liber et iegalis homo, being supposed by the event to have been proved forsworn, and not fit to be put upon a jury or admitted asa witness.
Wharton.