duodecima manus
duodecima manus (d[y]oo-oh-des-[schwa]-m[schwa] man-[schwa]s). [Latin] Twelve men. “The manner of waging and making law is this. He that has waged, or given security, to make his law, brings with him into court eleven of his neighbours: … for by the old Saxon constitution every man’s credit in courts of law depended upon the opinion which […]