[250] At fourteen, or when he can attend to his Parent’s concerns, according to Reg. Maj. L. 2. c. 41. See Bracton 86. b.
[251] The doctrine of the text is corroborated by the Reg. Maj. L. 2. c. 42. “Every Guardian,” says the Mirror, “is answerable for three things. 1. That he maintain the Infant sufficiently. 2. That he maintain his rights and Inheritance, without waste. 3. That he answer and give satisfaction of the Trespasses done by the Infant.” (Mirror c. 5. s. 1. See also Bracton 87. a. and le Grand Cust. de Norm. c. 33.)
[252] The Translator renders the passage as restored by the Harl., Cotton. and Dr. Milles’s MSS.
[253] Appeletur de Felonia. “Appellum,” says Sir Edward Coke, “signifies an accusation, and, therefore, to appeal a man is as much as to accuse him.” The word appellum is derived of appeller to call: because, appellans vocat reum in judicium, he calleth the Defendant to judgment. (Co. Litt. 287. b. See also 391. a. and Cowell ad voc.) Appeals were known to the Normans. (Grand Custum. c. 68.)
[254] This, though a part of the common Law, had been so frequently violated, that it was felt necessary to make it part of the Great Charter. (2 Inst. 14.)
[255] Bracton L. 1. c. 8. (Al. MS.)
[256] Bracton fo. 5. b.
[257] Or socage, says Bracton, fo. 87. a. See Co. Litt. 77. a.
[258] Vide 2. Inst. 12. 13. With respect to the Practice, alluded to in the text, Lord Littleton observes, that undoubtedly inferior Lords did the same. It likewise, adds his Lordship, appears by the Great Rolls, that the wardships of the crown were sold by King Henry the second, and mention is made of that practice, without any blame, in the charters of King John and Henry the third. (Hist. Hen. 2. Vol. 3. 109.) The above citation from Lord Coke confirms the doctrine of the noble Historian.
[259] If, says a Law of Ina, the Husband and Wife have any children, and the Husband dies, the mother shall retain and nourish her Child. Six shillings shall be given her to enable her to do it; a Cow, in summer, and an Ox, in winter. (LL. Inæ c. 38.)