[424] Bracton. Lib. III. Tract. ii. cap. 19 § 6, cf. cap. 23 § 2.
[425] Ibid. cap. 20 § 5. Cf. Maitland, Select Pleas of the Crown, Vol. i. p. 43.
[426] Maitland, p. 48—“Utrum verum sit appellum vel athia” (hate).
[427] Würdinger, Beiträge zur Geschichte des Kampfrechtes in Bayern, p. 7.
[428] L. Anglior. et. Werinor. Tit. XV. The variations in the coinage are so numerous and uncertain, that to express the values of the solidus or sou, at the different periods and among the different races enumerated, is virtually impossible. In general terms, it may be remarked that the Carlovingian solidus was the twentieth part of a pound of silver, and according to the researches of Guérard was equivalent in purchasing power to about thirty-six francs of modern money. The marc was half a pound of silver.
[429] L. Baioar. Tit. VIII. cap. ii. § 5; cap. iii.
[430] L. Longobard, Lib. ii. cap. lv. § 37.
[431] L. Henrici I. cap. 59.
[432] Isambert, Anciennes Lois Françaises, I. 162. This occurs in an edict abolishing sundry vicious customs of the town of Orleans. It was probably merely a local regulation, though it has been frequently cited as a general law.
[433] Livres de Jostice et de Plet, Liv. XIX. Tit. xvii. § 3, Tit. xxii. § 4, Tit. xxxviii. § 3. See also a coutumier of Anjou of the same period (Anciens Usages d’Anjou, § 32—Marnier, Paris, 1853).