[1181] Of this in the next essay.
[1182] A valuable and interesting discussion of the proprietary system of the Lex Salica will be found in Blumenstok, Entstehung des deutschen Immobiliareigenthums, Innsbruck, 1894. This will serve as a good introduction to the large literature which surrounds the De migrantibus. The least probable of all interpretations seems that given by Fustel de Coulanges.
[1183] See Meitzen, op. cit. i. 526–35.
[1184] Meitzen, i. 517 and the Maps 66 a, 66 b in the Atlas.
[1185] Meitzen, ii. 97–122.
[1188] Throughout the historical time, so far as we know, the right of every commoner has been well protected against strangers. He might drive off the stranger’s beasts, impound them, and, at all events if he had been incommoded, might sue for damages. See Marys’s case, 9 Coke’s Reports, 111 b; Wells v. Watling, 2 W. Blackstone’s Reports, 1233. He needed no help from his neighbours.
[1189] See above, pp. [13], [124].
[1190] I refer to the much discussed case of Aston and Cote. See Law Quarterly Review, ix. 214.