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Dumont's Traité des Preuves judiciaires was a redaction of the original papers, and an English translation of this appeared in 1825. The parts referring to English Law were omitted. After 1808 Bentham's attention was especially drawn to political questions.

Indeed, we are not sorry that the world should see how respectfully we were disposed to treat a great man, even when we considered him as the author of a very weak and very unfair attack on ourselves. We wish, however, to intimate to the actual writer of that attack that our civilities were intended for the author of the "Preuves Judiciaires," and the "Defence of Usury" and not for him.

Einhard's Life in op. cit. p. 45. The Monk of St Gall's Life in op. cit., pp. 144-7. Einhard's Life in op. cit., p. 39. Ibid., p. 35. Beazley, Dawn of Modern Geography , I, p. 325. The Monk of St Gall's Life in op. cit., pp. 78-9. See the description in Lavisse, Hist. de France II, pt. I, p. 321; also G. Monod, Les moeurs judiciaires au VIIIe Siècle, Revue Historique, t.

Unfortunately the young man could not justify by victory the honour of his king and before the monarch and the assembled court he was laid low by his adversary. This was one of the last of the "duels judiciaires" in France.