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235 Chap. lxi. p. 309.

236 Ibid.

237 See Beaumanoir, Defontaines, and the ”Inst.i.tutions,” book II. chaps. x., xi., xv., and others.

238 See the ordinances at the beginning of the third race, in the collection of Lauriere, especially those of Philip Augustus, on ecclesiastic jurisdiction; that of Louis VIII concerning the Jews; and the charters related by Mr. Brussel; particularly that of St. Louis, on the release and recovery of lands, and the feodal majority of young women, tom. ii. book III. p. 35, and ibid., the Ordinance of Philip Augustus, p. 7.

239 Chap. lxiii. p. 327; chap. lxi. p. 312.

240 See the ”Inst.i.tutions” of St. Louis, book II. chap. xv., and the Ordinance of Charles VII in the year 1453.

241 Chap. xxi. arts. 21 and 22.

242 Book I. chap. cx.x.xvi.

243 Chap. ii. art. 8.

244 Defontaines, chap. xxii. art. 7. This article, and the 21st of the 22d chapter of the same author, have been hitherto very badly explained. Defontaines does not oppose the judgment of the lord to that of the gentleman, because it was the same thing; but he opposes the common villain to him who had the privilege of fighting.

245 Gentlemen may always be appointed judges.-Defontaines, chap. xxi. art. 48.

246 Chap. xxii. art. 14.

247 Defontaines, chap. xxi. art. 33.

248 In the year 1332.

249 See the situation of things in Boutillier's time, who lived in the year 1402.-”Somme Rurale,” book I. pp. 19 and 20.

250 See chap. x.x.x.

251 Beaumanoir, chap. lxi. pp. 312 and 318.

252 Ibid.

253 Defontaines, chap. xxi. art. 14.

254 Of the Parliaments of France, book XII. chap. xvi.

255 Chap. lxi. p. 315.

256 As Beaumanoir says, chap. x.x.xix. p. 209.

257 They proved by witnesses what had been already done, said, or decreed in court.

258 Chap. x.x.xix. p. 218.

259 Defontaines in his counsel, chap. xxii. arts. 3 and 8; and Beaumanoir, chap. x.x.xiii. ”Inst.i.tutions,” book I. Chap xc.

260 Chap. xxii. art. 8.

261 At present when they are so inclined to appeal, says Boutillier-”Somme Rurale” book I. t.i.t. 3, p. 16 262 In the year 1324.

263 ”Adcocatus de parte publica.”

264 See this const.i.tution and this formula, in the second volume of the Historians of Italy,” p. 175.

265 Collection of Muratori, p. 104, on the 88th law of Charlemagne, book I. t.i.t. 26, sec. 48.

266 Another formula, ibid. p. 7.

267 Ibid. p. 104.

268 Collection of Muratori, p. 95.

269 Ibid. p. 88.

270 Ibid. p. 98.

271 Ibid. p. 132.

272 Ibid.

273 Ibid. p. 137.

274 Collection of Muratori, p. 147.

275 Ibid.

276 Ibid. p. 168.

277 Ibid. p. 134.

278 Ibid. p. 107.

279 Book I. chap. i.; and book II. chaps. xi. and xiii.

280 Cap. i. and lxi.

281 See these laws in the” Lives of the Saints,” of the month of June, tom. iii. p. 26.

282 ”Qui continue nostram sacram curiam sequi teneatur, inst.i.tuatur qui facta et causas in ipsa curia promoveat atque prosequatur.”

283 Preface to the ”Inst.i.tutions.”

284 Chap. xxix.