[86] Capitularia Regum Francorum, ed. Baluzius, Lib. VI. cap. 352, Lib. VII. cap. 208.
[87] Potgiesser, De Statu Servorum, Lib. III. cap. 3, p. 612, note.
[88] Ibid., p. 611; Leg. Burgund., Tit. VI. § 3.
[89] Ibid., p. 612.
[90] Europe during the Middle Ages (London, 1846), Ch. II. Part 2, Vol. I. p. 149, note.
[91] Coke upon Littleton, 122 b.; Brooke’s Abridgment, Villenage, 68; Fitzherbert’s Abridgment, Villenage, 38, 39.
[92] Hawkins, Pleas of the Crown, (7th edit.,) Book II. ch. 46, § 162 [45].
[93] Stephens, Slavery in the British West India Colonies, Vol. I. pp. 174, 175.
[94] Act 1705, § 31: 3 Hening, Statutes at Large, 298.
[95] Wheeler, Law of Slavery, p. 194, note.