The Origin of Property in Land / With an introductory chapter on the English manor by W. J. Ashley

by Fustel de Coulanges

[84] Ibidem, Liutprand, 116; Rotharis, 173.

[85] Lex salica, 59; “Si quis mortuus fuerit et filios non dimiserit.” These words, with which the chapter begins, manifestly imply that the inheritance goes first to the son; sect. 5; “De terra nulla in muliere hereditas; ad virilem sexum tota terra pertineat.”

[86] Ibidem, ix. 4; Wolfenbüttel MS., ix. 9; cf. xvi. 5; xxxiv. 1.

[87] Ibidem, xxvii. 18.

[88] Lex Ripuaria, 43, 56, 60, 82.

[89] Lex Alamannorum 1; proprietas in perpetuo permaneat.

[90] Ibidem, 2; si ipse qui dedit vel aliquis de heredibus suis.... Cf. ibid., 57.

[91] Ibidem, 80 (83), edit. Lehmann, pp. 144, 145.

[92] Lex Alamannorum, art. 81 (84), edit. Lehmann, pp. 145, 146. Pertz, 113 and 163.

[93] Lex Baiuwariorum, xii, 4.