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Abbot accused action Ælfric Æthelheard Æthelr Æthelst Æthelstan aforesaid Alfred Anglo-Saxon law Archbishop assertion auctor autem belonged betrothal bishop Bishop of Bayeux boc-land causae Cenwulf charters church claim Cnut contract court daer daes daet daet land defendant ealdorman ealle early German law England episcopus existed family land father folc-land gave gemot German law grant habeat heir Henr husband illa inheritance judgment jurisdiction Kemble kindred king king's laens Leofwine Lex Salica lord maegth marriage Maurer morning-gift movables oath oath-helpers object Offa Oswulf outlawry ownership party passage plaintiff pledge possession principle procedure proof prove quae quam quod Recht regis Roman Sachsenspiegel Saxon Schmid seisin shire Sohm suit supra Tacitus terra theft thief tion trinoda necessitas tunc vengeance Vide waes warrantor weotuma wergeld wife Wilda Witan witnesses Worcester Wulfred Wulfstan
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Page 155 - Nihil autem neque publicae neque privatae rei nisi armati agunt. sed arma sumere non ante cuiquam moris, quam civitas suffecturum probaverit. tum in ipso concilio vel principum aliquis vel pater vel propinqui scuto frameaque iuvenem ornant : haec apud illos toga, hie primus iuventae honos ; ante hoc domus pars videntur, mox rei publicae.
Page 165 - And if a man entice a maid that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife. 17 If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.
Page 150 - Potestates implied distinct jurisdictions, so that anybody amenable to two of them at the same time would have lived under two different dispensations. As long as the Family was an imperium in imperio, a community within the commonwealth governed by its own institutions of which the parent was the source, the limitation of relationship to the Agnates was a necessary security against a conflict of laws in the domestic forum...
Page 219 - ... him and can bring him to the warranty : if he cannot do that, let him prove at the altar, with one of his witnesses, or with the king's wic-reeve, that he bought the chattel openly in the wic, with his own...
Page 237 - ... if there be writing or witness that it was forbidden by those men who at first acquired it, and by those who gave it to him, that he should do so ; and then let that be declared in the presence of the king and of the bishop, before his kinsmen.
Page 166 - If she bear no child, let her paternal kindred have the 'fioh' and the 'morgen-gyfe.' 82. If a man carry off a maiden by force, let him pay L. shillings to the owner, and afterwards buy [the object of] his will of the owner. 83. If she be betrothed to another man in money, let him make 'bot
Page 194 - The fasting upon him consisted in going to his residence and waiting there for a certain time without food. If the plaintiff did not within a certain time receive satisfaction for his claim, or a pledge therefor, he forthwith, accompanied by a law-agent, witnesses, and others, seized his distress.
Page 267 - Suscipere tam inimicitias, seu patris, seu propinqui, quam amicitias, necesse est : nec implacabiles durant. Luitur enim etiam homicidium certo armentorum ac pecorum numero, recipitque satisfactionem universa domus : utiliter in publicum ; quia periculosiores sunt inimicitiae juxta libertatem.
Page 216 - If any Kentish-man buy a chattel in Lunden-wic, let him then have two or three true men to witness, or the king's wic-reeve. If it be afterwards claimed of the man in Kent, let him then vouch the man who sold it him to warranty, in the wic...
Page 372 - ... rebus, infra civitatem et extra, infra burgum et extra, et in omnibus aliis locis. Et ab omnibus illis probis et sapientibus hominibus, qui affuerunt, fuit ibi diratiocinatum, et etiam a toto comitatu concordatum...