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Ipse barbaros mores tuos Christiana religione composuit...." Bk. v, ch. xliii. "Ipso quoque rege super cathedram regalem, scilicet, lapidem, sedente, sub cujus pedibus comites ceterique nobiles sua vestimenta coram lapide curvatis genibus sternebant. Qui lapis in eodem monasterio reverenter ob regum Albaniae consecrationem servatur.
For as the law saith, if so be as how there is an exception to evidence, that exception is in its nature but a denial of what is taken to be good by the other party, and exceptio in non exceptis, firmat regulam, d'ye see. But howsomever, in regard to this here affair, we need not be so scrupulous as if we were pleading before a judge sedente curia."
Singularly enough the same idea found favour with European architects in the middle ages, who often made use of it in the porches of their Christian cathedrals. Hence, the old formula often found in judicial documents, sedente inter leones, sitting between the lions which, was used of episcopal judgments delivered in the church porch.
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