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

[374.] Columella, i. vii.

[375.] 'Si quis colonus originalis vel inquilinus ante hos triginta annos de possessione discessit,' &c.—Cod. Theod. v. tit. x. 1.

[376.] Cod. Just. xi. tit. xlvii. 22.

[377.] Cod. Just. xi. tit. xlix. 1.

[378.] Frontini, Lib. ii. De controversiis Agrorum. Lachmann, p. 53. 'Frequenter in provinciis . . . . habent autem in saltibus privati non exiguum populum plebeium et vicos circa villam in modum munitionum.'

[379.] Cod. Theod. v. tit. iv. 3, A.D. 409. By this edict liberty is given for landowners to settle upon their property, as free coloni, people of the recently conquered 'Scyras' (a tribe inhabiting the present 'Moravia').

[380.] Sid. Apol. Epist. ii. xii. He complains that a governor partial to barbarians 'implet villas hospitibus.'

[381.] Cod. Theod. lib. vii. tit. viii. 5. Compare as regards the Burgundian settlement the passages in the Burgundian Laws, carefully commented upon in Binding's 'Das Burgundisch-Romanische Königreich, von 443 bis 532 A.D.,' 1, c. i. s. ii. et seq.

[382.] Binding, p. 36. And they called them villas. Leges Burg. T. 38–9.

[383.] Roth's Geschichte des Beneficialwesens, p. 81.