Note {15} — I. THE GERMANS AND THE EMPIRE TO 1073
Reading edition
The expression mittat eum in tertia manu has been interpreted in various ways; it means apparently either that the possessor is to place the article in question in the hands of a third disinterested party who is to hold it until the case has been tried, or that he is to refer the claimant to the "third party"; that is, the man from whom he obtained it.