The true translation of the words _nec super eum ibimus, nec super eum mittemus_, in Magna Carta, is thus made certain, as follows, "_nor will we (the king) proceed against him, nor send (any one) against him_ WITH FORCE OR ARMS."[19] It is evident that the difference between the true and false translations of the words, _nec super eum ibimus, nec super eum mittemus_, is of the highest legal importance, inasmuch as the true translation, _nor will we (the king) proceed against him, nor send (any one) against him by force or arms_, represents the king only in an _executive_ character, _carrying the judgment of the peers and "the law of the land" into execution_; whereas the false translation, _nor will we pass upon him, nor condemn him_, gives color for the exercise of a _judicial_ power, on the part of the king, to which the king had no right, but which, according to the true translation, belongs wholly to the jury. "_Per legale judicium parium suorum._" The foregoing interpretation is corroborated, (if it were not already too plain to be susceptible of corroboration,) by the true interpretation of the phrase "_per legale judicium parium suorum_." In giving this interpretation, I leave out, for the present, the word _legale_, which will be defined afterwards. The true meaning of the phrase, _per judicium parium suorum_, is, _according to the sentence of his peers_. The word _judicium, judgment_, has a technical meaning in the law, signifying the decree rendered in the decision of a cause. In civil suits this decision is called a _judgment_; in chancery proceedings it is called a _decree_; in criminal actions it is called a _sentence_, or _judgment_, indifferently. Thus, in a criminal suit, "a motion in arrest of _judgment_" means a motion in arrest of _sentence_.[20] In cases of sentence, therefore, in criminal suits, the words _sentence_ and _judgment_ are synonymous terms. They are, to this day, commonly used in law books as synonymous terms. And the phrase _per judicium parium suorum_, therefore, implies that the jury are to fix the sentence. The word _per_ means _according to_. Otherwise there is no sense in the phrase _per judicium parium suorum_. There would be no sense in saying that a king might imprison, disseize, outlaw, exile, or otherwise punish a man, or proceed against him, or send any one against him, _by force or arms, by_ a judgment of his peers; but there is sense in saying that the king may imprison, disseize, and punish a man, or proceed against him, or send any one against him, by force or arms, _according to_ a judgment, or _sentence_, of his peers; because in that case the king would be merely carrying the sentence or judgment of the peers into execution.