de judaismo

DE JUDAISMO, STATUTUM. The name of a statute passed in the reign of Edw. I., 
which enacted severe and absurd penalties against the Jews. Barr. on Stat. 
197. 
     2. The Jews were exceedingly oppressed during the middle ages 
throughout Christendom, and, are so still in some countries. In France, a 
Jew was a serf, and his person and goods belonged to the baron on whose 
demesnes he lived. He could not change his domicil without permission of the 
baron, who could pursue him as a fugitive even on the domains of the king. 
Like an article of commerce, he might be lent or hired for a time, or 
mortgaged. If he became a Christian, his conversion was considered a larceny 
of the lord, and his property and goods were confiscated. They were allowed 
to utter their prayers only in a low voice and without chanting. They were 
not allowed to appear in public without some badge or mark of distinction. 
Christians were forbidden to employ Jews of either sex as domestics, 
physicians or surgeons. Admission to the bar was forbidden to Jews. They 
were obliged to appear in court in person, when they demanded justice for a 
wrong done them, and it was deemed disgraceful to an advocate to undertake 
the cause of a Jew. If a Jew appeared in court against a Christian, he was 
obliged to swear by the ten names of God, and invoke a thousand imprecations 
against himself, if he spoke not the truth. Sexual intercourse between a 
Christian man and a Jewess was deemed a crime against nature, and was 
punishable with death by burning. Quia est rem habere cum cane, rem habere a 
Christiano cum Judaea quae CANIS reputatur - sic comburi debet. 1 Fournel, 
Hist. des Avocats, 108, 110. See Merlin, Repert. au mot Juifs. 
     3.  In the fifth book of the Decretals, it is provided, that if a Jew 
have a servant that desireth to be a Christian, the Jew shall be compelled 
to sell him to a Christian for twelve pence that it shall not be lawful for 
them to take any Christian to be their servant that they may repair their 
old synagogues, but not build new - that it shall not be lawful for them to 
open their doors, or windows on good Friday; that their wives neither have 
Christian nurses, nor themselves be nurses to Christian women - that they 
wear different apparel from the Christians, whereby they may be known, &c 
See Ridley's View of the Civ. and Eccl Law, part 1, chap. 5, sect. 7 and 
Madox Hist. of the Exchequer, Index, as to their condition in England.