CHAP. III.: The same Subject continued.

THOSE laws, which condemn a man to death on the deposition of a single witness, are fatal to liberty. In right reason there should be two; because a witness who affirms, and the accused who denies, make an equal balance, and a third must incline the scale.

The Greeks See Aristid. Orat. in Minervam. ^†392 and Romans Dionys. Halicarn. on the judgement of Coriolanus, book 7. ^†393 required one voice more to condemn: but our French laws insist upon two. The Greeks pretend that their custom was established by the Gods Minervæ calculus. ^†394; but this more justly may be said of ours.