The Origin of Property in Land: With an introductory chapter on the English manor by W. J. AshleyFustel de Coulanges
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The Origin of Property in Land: With an introductory chapter on the English manor by W. J. Ashley
Fustel de Coulanges
Land tenure -- Law and legislation -- History; Manors -- Great Britain; Real property -- History
[155] _Ibidem_, 50, 5: “Si privati hominis actorem occiderit.” 38, 9:
“Si in villa conductor....”
[156] _Ibidem_, 55: “Quicumque agrum cum mancipiis largitione nostra
percepit.”
[157] _Lex Alamann._, _pactus_, 8, 19, 20, 21; _lex_, 22-23.
[158] _Ibid._, 79: edit. Lehmann, pp. 138-139. “Si pastor porcorum....
Si pastor ovium qui 80 capita in grege habet domini sui.... Si
seniscalcus qui servus est et dominus ejus 12 vassos infra domum
habet.... Si mariscalcus qui super 12 caballos est.”
[159] _Lex. Alam._, 81, edit. Lehmann, 77, p. 141: “Si servi domum
incenderit ... scuriam vel graneam servi si incenderit.”
[160] _Ibidem_, art. 4 (6): “Si spicariam servi incenderit, 3 solidis;
et si domini, sex solidis.”
[161] See, for example, a document of 797 in Lacomblet, No. 9: “Dono
... unam hovam quam proserviunt liti mei; No. 4: terram quam Landulfus
litus meus incolebat et proserviebat.” [As to the _liti_, see also
Fustel de Coulanges, _L’Alleu_, p. 342, and Schmid, _Gesetze der
Angelsachsen_, pp. 5 (Aethelbirht, 26), 409 (Formula).]
[162] The usual formula runs: “Dono curtem cum domibus accolabus,
mancipiis, vineis, campis, silvis, etc.” Lacomblet, No. 1 _et
seq._; Meichelbeck, pp. 27, 34, 36, 49, 51, etc.; Neugart, passim.
_Laureshamensis_, No. 1: “Villam nostram cum omni integritate sua,
terris, domibus, litis, libertis, conlibertis, mancipiis.” _Monumenta
Boica_, viii. 365: “Colonos seu tributales;” xi. pp. 14 et 15: “Dedit
mansos 26 et vineas cum cultoribus suis.” Zeuss, No. 21: “villam ...
cum hominibus commanentibus.” Zeuss, 36: “Ipsi servi qui ipsas hobas
tenent.”
[163] _Codex Laureshamensis_, No. 33.
[164] Dronke, _Codex Fuldensis_, No. 84.
[165] _Ibidem_, No. 88.
[166] _Ibidem_, No. 163.
[167] _Codex Laureshamensis_, No. 105. Cf. Zeuss, No. 26, where an
owner sells an estate with twenty-two slaves, whose names he gives.
[168] _Codex Laureshamensis_, No. 33.
[169] _Ibidem_, No. 37.
[170] _Ibidem_, No. 83.
[171] Thus in the villa Frankenheim there is a _curtile dominicatum_,
Zeuss, _Traditiones Wissemb._, No. 127; in the villa Cazfeldes a _terra
indominicata_, _ibid._, No. 3; in the villa Oterefheim a _curtile
indominicatum_, _ibid._, No. 19; in the villa or marca Bruningsdorf, a
_curtis indominicata_, comprising houses, stables and barns, and having
attached to it about 100 acres in meadows, fields, vineyards, and
woods, _ibidem_, No. 25.
[172] The _dominicum_ is mentioned in the laws of the Alamanni, 22:
“servi faciant tres dies sibi et tres in dominico;” and in the law
of the Bavarians, 1, 14: “servus tres dies in hebdomada in dominico
operetur, tres vero sibi faciat.” It is generally known that it was the
almost universal practice for the _dominicum_ to be tilled and reaped
by the tenants.
[173] Maurer, _Einleitung_, p. 138. _Lex Burgundionum_, xlix. 3: “Quod
prius statutum est, universitatem convenit observare.” Cf. the frequent
phrase: “noverit universitas fidelium nostrorum.”
[174] _Lex Wisigothorum_, x. 3, 2.
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