Note 376 — Book X.
John Beames translation
The same Rule is laid down in the Norman Code: but the subject is there treated far more diffusely. It seems, by that Code, to have been an obligation imposed upon the Homager, by his tenure, to become pledge for his Lord’s Debts to the extent of a year’s Rent—to become pledge for his person, if in prison—for his prosecuting a suit, or appearing to it, &c. &c. (Grand Custum. c. 60.)