Note 379 — Book X.
John Beames translation
With this explanation the Regiam Majestatem (L. 3. c. 2.) and the Grand Norman Custumary (c. 113.) literally coincide—though it differs from that given by Littleton, and followed by Coke, Craig, and Blackstone. (Co. Litt. 205. a. 2 Comm. Bl. 157. Craig Jus Feud. L. 2. D. 6. s. 27.) What is the more remarkable, Lord Coke expressly contrasts the mortuum vadium to the vivum vadium. Vivum autem dicitur vadium quia nonquam moritur ex aliquâ parte quod ex suis proventibus acquiratur. But assuredly, if the term mortgage is to be collected from its forcible contrast to these words, Glanville’s explanation is infinitely preferable to that given by Lord Coke.