Testis
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
A witness. Testari: to be a witness, bear witness to; to be witnessed, shown, certified. In the medieval trial by oath the fellow swearers who swore merely to the truthfulness of another person’s oath and had no knowledge necessarily of the facts were called by the ambiguous name of testis. Thayer, Prel. Treat, on Evid.
See Compurgators.
TESTM0IGNE.
An old French word, signifying, in the old books, evidence. Com. Dig. Testmoigne.