Domania regis et Thanagia regis idem significant. Ass. reg. Da. c. Statuit Dominus, 38.—Skene, _De Verborum Significatione_. Si vero in dominicis vel Thanagiis domini regis, etc. Stat. Alex. II.—_Acts of Parliament_, i. 399. Footnote 254: _Acts of Parliament_, i. p. 375. Footnote 255: ‘Abstractione sanguinis que dicitur Bludwytys.’—_Chart. of Lennox_, p. 44. ‘Bludwytys que Scotice dicitur _fuilrath_.’—_Ib_. p. 45. Footnote 256: _Acts of Parliament_, vol. i. p. 663. Footnote 257: Thus the son of an _Aire forgall_ was an _Aire ard_.—_Brehon Laws_, vol. i. p. 77. Footnote 258: _Brehon Laws_, vol. i. p. 49; Petrie’s _Antiquities of Tarahill_, p. 199; _Chron. of Picts and Scots_, p. 319. Footnote 259: _Acts of Parl._, vol. i. p. 640. Footnote 260: _Acts of Parliament_, vol. i. p. 398. Footnote 261: _Acts of Parliament_, vol. i. p. 655. Footnote 262: _Liber de Scon_, p. 24. Footnote 263: _Chart. Dunf._, pp. 6, 17. The two classes are mentioned in a charter by Thomas, Earl of Mar, in 1359, of the lands of Rotheneyk, ‘cum nativis et fugitivis dictarum terrarum.’—_Ant. Aberd. and Banff_, vol. iv. p. 716. Footnote 264: These names seem to be derived from the verb _Cum_, tene, retine; and in the one case _forba_ or _orba_, terra, and in the other _lamh_, manus, with or without the preposition _ar_, upon. The word _Cum_ is no doubt the root of the Irish _Cumal_, the primary meaning of which was a female slave. Footnote 265: _Acts of Parl._, vol. i. p. 381. Footnote 266: The word Davach has been supposed to be derived from _Damh_ an ox, and _Achadh_ or _Ach_ a field, and thus to mean oxgang; but the Book of Deer shows this to be false etymology. The word there in its oldest form is _Dabach_, and the last syllable is inflected (forming in gen. pl. _acc_, dual _Dabeg_), which it could not be if it meant _Ach_ a field. The word is also applied in Ireland to the largest liquid measure, and appears in this sense in the old Irish Glosses, ‘Caba, _i.e_. Cavea, _Dabhach_, genitive _Dabhca_’ (p. 63). Footnote 267: Dasent’s _Saga of Burnt Njal_. Footnote 268: _Chart. of Lennox_, pp. 34, 36, 38. Mr. W. Fraser, in his first report on the Montrose papers, notes a charter by Alexander of Dunhon to Sir Patrick of Graham of three quarters of a carucate of land of Akeacloy nether, _which in Scotch is called Arachor_ (_Hist. MSS. Rep. I._ 166); but in his second report quotes two charters by the Earl of Lennox confirming to Sir David of Graham the half-carucate of land of Strathblahane, where the church called Arathor in the one charter and Letharathor in the other was built, but these charters have obviously been misread. It was not the church but the land conveyed that was called _Arathor_ or _Letharathor_, that is, carucate or half-carucate (_ib_. iv. 386). Footnote 269: