In old English law. A word of disgrace and obloquy, pronounced on either champion, in the ancient trial by bat-tie, proving recreant, i. e., yielding. Glanville tails it “infestum ct inverccundum verb urn.” His condemnation was amittere liberam legem, i. e., to become infamous, and not to be accounted liber et legal is homo, being, sup-l)osed by the event to have been proved for-sworn, and not fit to he put upon a jury or admitted as a witness, wharton
