Judgment.
Judicium.
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The best Law, is
a quiet _agreement_,
made either by themselves,
betwixt whom the sute is,
or by an _Umpire_.
Optimum Jus, est
placida _conventio_,
facta vel ab ipsis,
inter quos lis est
vel ab _Arbitro_.
If this do not proceed,
they come into _Court_, 1.
(heretofore they judg’d
in the Market-place;
at this day in the _Moot-hall_)
Hæc si non procedit,
venitur in _Forum_, 1.
(olim judicabant
in Foro,
hodiè in _Prætorio_)
in which the _Judge_, 2.
sitteth with his _Assessors_, 3.
the _Clerk_, 4. taketh
their Votes in writing.
cui _Judex_ (Prætor), 2.
præsidet cum _Assessoribus_, 3.
_Dicographus_, 4. excipit
Vota calamo.
The _Plaintiff_, 5.
accuseth the _Defendant_, 6.
and produceth _Witnesses_, 7.
against him.
_Actor_, 5.
accusat _Reum_, 6.
& producit _Testes_, 7.
contra illum.
The _Defendant_ excuseth
himself by a _Counsellor_, 8.
_Reus_ excusat
se per _Advocatum_, 8.
whom the Plaintiff’s _Counsellor_, 9.
contradicts.
cui Actoris _Procurator_, 9.
contradicit.
Then the _Judge_
pronounceth _Sentence_,
acquitting the _innocent_,
and condemning
him that is _guilty_,
Tum _Judex_
_Sententiam_ pronunciat,
absolvens _insontem_,
& damnans
_sontem_
to a _Punishment_,
or a _Fine_,
or _Torment_.
ad _Pœnam_,
vel _Mulctam_,
vel ad _Supplicium_.