Talmud Bavli
Talmud Bavli

Halakhah for Shevuot 60:5

והאמר מר מחלוקת בשעת משא ומתן אבל בשעת גמר דין דברי הכל דיינים בישיבה ובעלי דינין בעמידה דיתיב כמאן דשרי מסאניה ואמר איש פלוני אתה זכאי איש פלוני אתה חייב

if I should not rise before her, [I should be doing wrong, for] the wife of a scholar is like a scholar.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' And must be respected.');"><sup>10</sup></span> So he said to his attendant: 'Go and make a duck fly over me, and urge it towards me, so that I will rise.'<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I will really rise out of respect for her, but her opponent will not be intimidated, because he will think I rise to ward off the duck.');"><sup>11</sup></span> But the Master said: The controversy is in regard to the time of the discussion, but at the time of the completion of the case all agree that the judges sit and the litigants stand!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' How then is a judge to show his respect for scholarship should a scholar happen to come in while he is giving the verdict?');"><sup>12</sup></span>

Sefer HaChinukh

From the laws of the commandment is that which they, may their memory be blessed, said (Shevuot 30b) that any judge who knows about a case that it is rigged, that he is obligated to remove himself from it, and not say, "I will conclude it and the chain will be around the neck of the [lying] witnesses"; and the great praises with which the sages praised the seeking of truth and the distancing of falsehood in judgment. And the rest of its many details - are elucidated in Sanhedrin and also in the Midrash (see Mishneh Torah, Laws of The Sanhedrin and the Penalties within their Jurisdiction 25).
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