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At last, this system, so wasteful of life, so barbarous in character, so vain and inefficient as Arbiter of Justice, yielded to judicial tribunals.
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Sumner describes the eventual decline of Trial by Battle in favor of judicial tribunals, emphasizing its inefficiency and barbarity.
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