I conclude, therefore, that under the circumstances of time in which the trial by combat and the trial by hot iron and boiling water obtained, there was such an agreement between those laws and the manners of the people, that the laws were rather unjust in themselves than productive of injustice, that the effects were more innocent than the cause, that they were more contrary to equity than prejudicial to its rights, more unreasonable than tyrannical.
Hortaz, hauxe diot: garai hartan, borroka bidezko froga eta burdina goriaren eta ur irakinaren froga erabiltzen ziren gorabeheretan, hain zetozen bat legeak ohiturekin, non legeok ez baitzuten bidegabe askorik egin, nahiz berez bidegabeak izan;