Premodern Japanese law

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I am reading my readings for tomorrow's exam for the first time. Interesting bits! :D

"In the trials of the Kamakura Period, documentary evidence and testimony by witnesses were carefully weighed by the Magistrate in arriving at his verdict, but in the absence of such evidence or witnesses, the disputants were required to swear to the gods that

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It's really cool that you're studying that, btw! We're covering Chinese law at the moment in my course but only doing Japanese if there's time at the end of the year...