_Finé_’ (_Finnteada_), and this is explained in the commentary to mean that ‘the _Fuidhir gabla_—that is, the _Fodaor_ or natural bondsman (_Daor_)—does not bear the crimes of his relatives unless he has five houses to relieve him, that is, five who have stock consisting of a hundred head of cattle, and unless they belong to one chief. If there be five men of them, each man having a hundred of cattle, every one of them obtains his share of the _dibadh_ land of each other, and pays for the crimes of others, like every free native, that is, when they have the five stocks of a hundred cattle and are under one chief.[196] The lower class of _Fuidhir_ were of four kinds, termed _grui_, _gola_, _gabla_, and _gill de bas_, and consisted of strangers who had lost their land by wars, or fled from having been guilty of bloodshed, and of hostages saved from death. Lower than these again were the _Bothach_ or cottiers, likewise divided into the two classes of _Saer_ and _Daer_ according as they were either small occupiers of land or were prædial slaves, and probably were remains of the oldest population of the land. [Sidenote: Territorial basis of _Finé_.] The formation of the _Finé_ or sept had thus a territorial basis, and the possession of the _Deis_ or inheritance land, which gave its owner the rank of _Aire_, was also essential to his acquiring the privileges of the chief of a _Finé_. Thus we are told in one of the law tracts that ‘there are four _deis_ rights prescribed for _flaith_ or chiefs. The ancient protection of the _Tuath_ is his office in the _Tuath_; the office of _Tuisig_ or leader, or _Tanaist Tuisig_, whichever it be, of his _Ceile gialnai_ or bond Ceile, his _Saer Ceile_, and his _Sencleithe_ or ancient adherents; the punishment of every imperfect service; and the following of _Bothach_ or cottiers and _Fuidhir_, whom he brings upon his land, because his wealth is greater and better. If there is service from them to the _Flaith_ during nine times nine years, they are _Bothach_ and _Fuidhir_, but after that they are ranked as _Sencleithe_ or old adherents.’[197]