The lavves and statutes of Geneua as well concerning ecclesiastical discipline, as ciuill regiment, with certeine proclamations duly executed, whereby Gods religion is most purelie mainteined, and their common wealth quietli gouerned: translated out of Frenche into Englishe by Robert Fills.
Geneva (Switzerland), Fills, Robert, fl. 1562.
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❧The causes to refuse, be suche as foloweth.
THAT is to say to haue ben proc∣tor or counseller or first Iudge in the cause. Also parentage, as fa∣ther to sonne, brother to brother, or Vncle to neuew, or cosyn germayne, likewise affiniti vnto ye degre of vncle or neuew, and so to the contrarie.
Item, when the cause toucheth him which is refused, as if the proces were touching marchandize, in the whiche he was a peartener in, or yf he were suertie or in any, case haue had to doe in the same.
Item, yf he beare manifest fauour to the one partie, or hate to the other, which maye be knowen or perceyued by vehement presumptyon, it shall not bee nedefull to proue the same thoroughlye.
