juramentum judiciale

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juramentum judiciale - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :

  JURAMENTUM JUDICIALE. A term in the civil law. The oath called juramentum 
  judiciale is that which the judge, of his own accord, defers to either of 
  the parties. 
       2. It is of two kinds. 1st. That which the judge defers for the 
  decision of the cause, and which is understood by the general name 
  juramentum judiciale, and is sometimes called suppletory oath, juramentum 
  suppletorium. 
       3.-2d. That which the judge defers in order to fix and determine the 
  amount of the condemnation which he ought to pronounce, and which is called 
  juramentum in litem. Poth. on Oblig. P. 4, s. 3, art. 3.