[398]. Cod. Dipl. Nos. 933, 934, 935, 936, 981 (the 31st paragraph).
[399]. Ibid. No. 981 (the 28th paragraph).
[400]. Ibid. No. 975.
[401]. Leg. Æðelr. v. § 2; vi. § 9. Cnut, Leg. Sec. § 3.
[402]. The Romans used to slay their infirm and useless serfs, or expose them in an island of the Tiber. Claudius made several regulations in their favour. “Cum quidam aegra et affecta mancipia in insulam Aesculapii taedio medendi exponerent, omnes, qui exponerentur, liberos esse sanxit, nec redire in ditionem domini, si convaluissent; quod si quis necare mallet quem quam exponere, caedis crimine teneri.” Suet. in Claud. 25.
[403]. See supra, p. 38, note 1.
[404]. Thorpe, A. S. Laws, i. 432, and a later edition by Dr. H. Leo of Halle, 1842.
[405]. This is the Robot of Slavonic countries, the Operatio of our Norman law; a mere labour-rent, necessary in countries where there is no accumulated capital, and wealth (for want of markets) consists only in land, and limbs wherewith to till it.
[406]. Cod. Dip. No. 1079.
[407]. The compounds of bǽrde cannot denote anything but a permanent condition or quality: they are nearly equivalent to the compounds of cund, excepting that they are necessarily personal.