CXXIV.

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_.