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133 In the ”Pactus legis Salicae.”

134 We have both the ancient law and that which was amended by this prince.

135 Book II. t.i.t. 55, sec. 11.

136 See the Greek romances of the Middle Age.

137 In the year 1283.

138 Beaumanoir, chap. vi. pp. 40 and 41.

139 Ibid. chap. lxiv. p. 328.

140 Ibid. chap. lxiv. p. 330.

141 Ibid.

142 Ibid.

143 The great va.s.sals had particular privileges.

144 Beaumanoir, chap. lxiv. p. 330, says, he lost his jurisdiction: these words in the authors of those days have not a general signification, but a signification limited to the affair in question. Defontaines, chap. xxi. art. 29.

145 This custom, which we meet with in the Capitularies, was still subsisting at the time of Beaumanoir. See chap. lxi. p. 315.

146 Beaumanoir, chap. lxiv. p. 330.

147 Ibid. chap. lxi. p. 309.

148 Ibid. p. 308; chap. xliii. p. 239.

149 Ibid., chap. lxi. p. 314. See also Defontaines, chap. xxii. art 24.

150 Beaumanoir, chap. lxiii. p. 322.

151 Ibid.

152 Ibid.

153 Beaumanoir, chap. lxiii. p. 323.

154 Ibid. p. 324.

155 Ibid. p. 325.

156 Ibid.

157 Ibid. p. 323. (See also what I have said in book XVIII.) 158 Beaumanoir, chap. lxiii. p. 322.

159 Defontaines, chap. xxii. art. 7.

160 ”Habeant bellandi et testificandi licentiam.”-Charter of Louis the Fat, in the year 1118.

161 Ibid.

162 Chap. lxi. p. 315.

163 Chap. vi. pp. 39 and 40.

164 But if the battle was fought by champions, the champion that was overcome had his hand cut off.

165 t.i.t. 16, sec. 7.

166 t.i.t. 45.

167 Letter to Louis the Debonnaire.

168 ”Life of St. Avitus.”

169 Beaumanoir, chap. ii. p. 22.

170 Ibid., chap. lxi. p. 312, and chap. lxvii. p. 338.

171 Book II. chap. xv.

172 Beaumanoir, chap. lxi. pp. 310 and 311, and chap. lxvii. p. 337.

173 Beaumanoir, chap. ixi. p. 313.

174 Ibid. p. 314.

175 Ibid.

176 Chap. xxii. art. 1, 10, and 11, he says only, that each of them was allowed a small fine.

177 Beaumanoir, chap. lxi. p. 314.

178 Ibid. Defontaines, chap. xxii. art. 9.

179 Ibid.

180 Beaumanoir, chap. lxi. p. 316, and Defontaines, chap. xxii. art. 21.

181 Ibid. chap. lxi. p. 314.

182 Defontaines, chap. xxii. art. 7.

183 See Defontaines, chap. xxi. art. 11 and 12, and following, who distinguishes the cases in which the appellant of false judgment loses his life, the point contested, or only the imparlance.

184 Beaumanoir, chap. lxii. p. 322. Defontaines, chap. xxii.