18 appellation law, which in Denmark was applied to a Jury of a peculiar description.* For even while the ordeals and trial by battle were recog- nized and admitted by law, every one felt that the trial by the country was far more legal : That trial was the law, x.uff l^oy/jv, even though the other trials were not contrary to law ; and this superior lawfulness, or legality, the ancients vindicated in the strongest manner by the very term. * The Danish Lov or Law, is, indeed, in almost every in- stance, identical with the English Wager op Law, as de- 1 scribed by Sir William Blackstone, (B. III. chap. 22. §6.) In enumerating the different ancient modes of trial used in Great Britain, this learned author, beginning with trials which were most in use while society was as yet in a rude state, uni- formly proceeds to those which better agreed with culture and refinement. In a series thus arranged, the Wager of Law immediately precedes the Trial by Jury. It would have been more philosophical, and more in accordance with strict sys- tem, not at all to separate the Wager of Law from the Trial by Jury ; but to treat of them conjunctly under one head, as the former is oidy a variety of the latter : the Wager of Law being a trial by Jury in a rude state, and the Jury trial a Wager of law refined, organized, and improved. This view of both respectively, would have forced itself on the notice of Blackstone, if he had been better acquainted with the ancient form of process in Denmark ; but it appears that only one work on the juridical antiquities of Scandinavia (viz. Stiern- hooks) was known to Blackstone. This author’s information is, however, on account of his imperfect knowledge of the ancient tongue, often exceptionable, and besides, confined only to Sweden. The Wager of Law corresponds with the Twelve-men’s-oaths, and Six-men’s-oaths, of Sweden, Nor- way, and Iceland; and probably also, with a similar insti- tution among the Saxons and Frisians.

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