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[87] Brussel, usage des fiefs, liv. 2. Selden’s tit. of honour, part 2, cap. 1. § 23. and § 33.

[88] Mably, observations sur l’histoire de France, liv. 1. chap. 5. and 6.

[89] Gregor. Turonen. lib. 2. cap. 27. Usage des fiefs, par Brussel, liv. 2. cap. 6. Dissertation on the antiq. of the English constitution, part 3. § 2.

[90] Lib. feud. 1. tit. 1. Hume appendix, 2. Dalrymple, Essay on feudal property, cap. 5. § 1.

[91] Coke on Littleton, lib. 2. chap. 4.

[92] Montesquieu, l’Esprit des loix. liv. 30. chap. 13. Du Cange, voc. Alod. Schilteri Thesaur. voc. Alod.

[93] Heinnec. Elem. jur. Germ. lib. 3. § 26. Selden’s tit. of hon. part 2. chap. 1. Spelman, voc. Comites.

[94] Ripuar. L. L. tit. de diversis interfectionibus, p. 160, 161. ap. Georgisch, corp. jur. Germ. Du Cange, voc. Faida.

[95] Bacon’s Discourse on the Laws and Government of England, p. 11.-27. Monast. Anglican, passim. Mezeray, abr. chronol. tom. 1. p. 172.