[70] _Ibidem_: “Hucusque antecessores mei tenuerunt et in alodem mihi reliquerunt.” The word _alodis_ in the language of this period has no other meaning but inheritance. [On the meaning of _alod_ see chap. iv. in the author’s work _L’Alleu et le Domaine Rural_, which has appeared since his death.] [71] Maurer, _Einleitung_, pp. 87, 88 and 145. [72] “Si quis tam burgundio quam romanus in silva communi exartum fecerit, aliud tantum spatii de silva hospiti suo consignet, et exartum quod fecit, remota hospitis communione, possideat.” [73] “Quicumque in communi campo vineam plantaverit, similem campum illi restituat _in cujus campo_ vineam posuit.” [74] “Si vero post interdictum in campo alterius vineam plantare præsumpserit, laborem suum perdat, et vineam _cujus est campus_ accipiat.” [75] See the note in the edition of Pertz, p. 607; see also Binding, in the _Fontes rerum Bernensium_, I. p. 142. [76] “Silvarum, montium, et pascui unicuique pro rata possessionis suppetit esse commune.” The same rule is to be found in another form in the law of the Burgundians, tit. 67: “Quicumque agrum vel colonicas tenent, secundum terrarum modum vel possessionis suæ ratam, sic silvam inter se noverint dividendam.” Neither in the one passage nor in the other is there any reference to a forest common to all. [77] _Lex romana Burgund._, ed. Pertz, p. 607, Binding p. 142; “Agri communis, nullis terminis limitati, exequationem inter consortes nullo tempore denegandam.” As to the synonymous use of _consortes_ and of _cohœredes_, see Cicero, _in Verrem_, III., 23; Paul, in the _Digest_, xxvii, I., 31; Sidonius, _Letters_ iv., 24; and many other examples. [78] Compare the sections _De familia herciscunda_ in the _Digest_, x. 2, and in the _Code_ of Justinian, iii. 36; see also in the _Code_ of Justinian, the section iii. 37, _de communi dividundo_, and especially the law No. 5. [79] _Lex Burgundionum_, xxvii. and xxviii., 1-2. [80] _Ibidem_, xxxviii. 4; cf. xlix. 3; “dominus extra fines suos.” [81] _Ibidem_, lv.; “ex ejus agri finibus quem barbarus cum mancipiis publica largitione percepit.” _Publica largitione_, by the gift of the king. This is the meaning of the word _publicus_ in the language of the time. [82] _Lex Wisigothorum_, viii. 3, 15; viii. 5, 1; viii. 4, 27; “silvæ dominus; is cujus pascua sunt.” [83] _Lex Langobardorum_, Rotharis, 240. [84] _Ibidem_, Liutprand, 116; Rotharis, 173. [85] _Lex salica_, 59; “Si quis mortuus fuerit et filios non dimiserit.” These words, with which the chapter begins, manifestly imply that the inheritance goes first to the son; sect. 5; “De terra nulla in muliere hereditas; ad virilem sexum tota terra pertineat.” [86] _Ibidem_, ix. 4; Wolfenbüttel MS., ix. 9; cf. xvi. 5; xxxiv. 1. [87] _Ibidem_, xxvii. 18. [88] _Lex Ripuaria_, 43, 56, 60, 82. [89] _Lex Alamannorum_ 1; proprietas in perpetuo permaneat. [90] _Ibidem_, 2; si ipse qui dedit vel aliquis de heredibus suis.... Cf. _ibid._, 57.