Gadow was the first commentator to notice a connection between certain terms in The Owl and the Nightingale and the language of the law courts, and Atkins was the first to make a detailed study of this phase of the poem. The present commentator has added elsewhere a number of significant details. Both Atkins and the present writer have sought an explanation of the use of the diction and procedure of the courts of the twelfth century in the fact that the arbiter of the debate, Nicholas of Guildford, was connected with the judiciary, either secular or ecclesiastical. Since the evidence presented was somewhat fragmentary and inconclusive, the writer has pursued the present study to establish a connection between the judicial usage of the age, including the penalties inflicted upon the guilty and some passages in the poem, which apparently have not hitherto been noted in this connection.