The personal servitude was attached to the person, and followed him everywhere. Wherever the serf might go, to whatever place he might transport his substance, he might be reclaimed by the lord by right of _suite_. Our authors cite several legal verdicts that establish this right--among others, a verdict given on the 17th June, 1760, in which the court decides against a _Seigneur_ of the Nivernais in respect to his right of claiming the succession of Pierre Truchet, who was the son of a serf subject to _poursuite_, according to the custom of the Nivernais, who had married a Parisian woman, and who had died in Paris, as well as his son. But this verdict seems to have been founded on the fact that Paris was a ‘place of refuge’ (_lieu d’asile_) in which the _suite_ could not take place. If the right of _asile_ alone prevented the _Seigneur_ from seizing upon property possessed by his serfs in the _lieu d’asile_, it formed no opposition against his claiming to succeed to property left in his own manor. The ‘real’ servitude resulted from the occupation of land, and might cease upon the land being given up or residence in a certain place changed. _Corvées._--The right possessed by the lord of the manor over his subjects, by means of which he could employ for his own profit a certain number of their days of labour, or of their oxen and horses. The _corvée à volonté_, that is to say, at the arbitrary will of the _Seigneur_, had been completely abolished: forced labour had been for some time past confined to a certain number of days a year. The _corvée_ might be either personal or real. The personal _corvées_ were paid by labourers and workmen, whose residence was established upon the manor, each according to his occupation. The real _corvées_ were attached to the possession of certain lands. Nobles, ecclesiastics, clerical personages, officers of justice, advocates, physicians, notaries, and bankers, and men in that position of life, were exempt from the _corvée_. A verdict, given on the 13th August, 1735, is cited by one of our authors, exempting a notary whom his _Seigneur_ wanted to force to come for nothing, during three days, and draw up certain law papers concerning the _seigneurie_ on which the notary resided. Another verdict, of the date of 1750, decides that, when the _corvée_ is personal, it may be paid either in person or by money, the choice to be left to the person by whom it is due. Every _corvée_ had to be established by written title-deeds. The _corvée seigneuriale_ had become extremely rare in the eighteenth century.