Yosef Karo

“ Paragraph 4- If one party wants to disqualify the judge his adversary selected through a claim that the judge is a thief or has a familial disqualification, we do not pay attention to his claim, even if he has a witness supporting it. ”

“ If the two judges agree, there are those that say that they do not need to select a third judge. There are those that say that if the defendant says he will choose two and the plaintiff can also choose two and they will select a fifth, the defendant is permitted to so because the more judges they have the more likely is it that the truth will prevail.
Paragraph 2- They would write so-and-so chose so-and-so and so-and-so chose so-and-so. A party may retract so long as it has not been written down. Once is had been written they can no longer retract. ”