[418]. Leg. Rotharis, Langob, Reg. cap. 225.
[419]. Leg. Roth. Langob. Reg. cap. 226.
[420]. Leg. Wiht. § 8.
[421]. “Per omnes terras suas, de triginta hominibus numeratis, tredecim manumisit, quemadmodum eum sors docuit, ut in quadrivio positi pergerent quocunque voluissent.” Hist. Ram. 29.
[422]. See Eichhorn, i. 333. Such a person resembles the Langobardic freedman per impans. Ibid. p. 331. I imagine the principle upon which the wergyld went to the king, to be this: the freedman either never had a free mǽgð, or they had forfeited the mǽgsceaft by suffering him to be reduced to serfage. Compare Leg. Eádw. § 9.
[423]. Leg. Hen. I. lxxviii. § 3. That is, that he is no longer liable to corporal punishment like a serf.
[424]. “Qui vero per chartam ingenuitatis dimissi sunt liberi,” etc. Capit. Bajuvar. an. 788. cap. 7 (Georgisch. p. 548). Eichhorn, i. 332.
[425]. Cod. Dipl. 1350.
[426]. Every lawyer knows the value of the ad ostium aecclesiae, at any rate in matters of dower. It implies perfect publicity.
[427]. Cod. Dipl. 981. § 28.