Note 2 — PART II HISTORICAL STUDIES (continued 2)
Reading edition
Monographie de la Constitution communale d'Amiens (Essai sur l'Histoire ... du Tiers-Etat, pp. 347-8). The charter of Abbeville prescribed this penalty ('domus ejus et omnia ad ejus mancionem pertinentia prosternantur') for homicide, which lies outside the class of 'political offences'. Giry, in his Etablissements de Rouen (1883), speaks of the 'abattis de maison' as 'caractéristique du droit municipal du Nord' (i. 431), but I do not find that he anywhere mentions it as the penalty appointed for refusing office.