Note 227 — Book VII.
John Beames translation
Primum Patris feodum primogenitus filius habet. (LL. Hen. 1. c. 70.) From this Lord Hale collects, that though the whole land did not descend to the Eldest Son, yet it began to look that way. (Hist. Com. Law, 224.) Mr. Somner, however, interprets the primum feodum to be only the Capital Messuage, according to Glanville, in the passage now before us, or what is called in the Grand Norman Custum. le chief de Heritage (Anglo-Sax. LL. Ed. Wilkins p. 266.)