The English Village Community / Examined in its Relations to the Manorial and Tribal Systems and to the Common or Open Field System of Husbandry; An Essay in Economic History (Reprinted from the Fourth Edition)

by Frederic Seebohm

[230.] The fullest description of the rules of 'family land' are those in the Venedotian Code, c. xii., The Law of Brothers for Land, pp. 81 et seq. See also Welsh Laws, Book IX. xxxi. p. 536; also Book XIV. xxxi. pp. 739 et seq.

[231.] Ancient Laws, &c., of Wales, Glossary, p. 1001.

[232.] The Record of Carnarvon, passim. Thus 'the Wele of So-and-so, the son of So-and-so, and the heirs of this Wele are So-and-so.'

[233.] This was not payable if an investiture fee had been paid by the person dying.

[234.] Ancient Laws, &c., p. 92 and 93.

[235.] Id. p. 375.

[236.] Book of Carnarvon, passim.

[237.] Sometimes an 'uchelwr' or tribesman had taeogs under him. Ancient Laws, &c., pp. 88, 339, and 573. See also Id. p. 646. Welsh Laws.

[238.] Id. pp. 82 and 536. Welsh Laws, s. xxxii.

[239.] Id. p. 376.