Testmoigne
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
This is an old and barbarous French word, signifying, in the old books, evidence. Comyn, Dig. TESTMOIGNES NE POENT TESTIFIE le negative, mes I'affirmative. Witnesses cannot witness to a negative; they must witness to an affirmative.
4 Inst. 279.
TEXTUS ROFFENSIS (Law Lat.) In old English law. The Rochester text. Ah ancient manuscript containing many of the Saxon laws, and the rights, customs, tenures, etc., of the church of Rochester, drawn up by Ernulph, bishop of that see from A. D. 1114 to 1124.
Cowell.
Blount gives it a greater antiquity.