Note 291 — Chapter IX · The State.
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Thorpe’s Ancient Laws, Ed. 1. Ath. I. 10, 12, 24, v. 10. Edm. C. 5. Edg. Sup., 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10. C. S., 24, and Gloss in voc Team. By the laws of Edward and Athelstan none were to buy or sell except “in Port,” and before the Port-Reeve; but after the institution of the Hundred, purchases and sales might be made, in conformity with the legal forms, in the upland as well as in burgh. The regulations about warranty first appear in the laws of Kent, the king’s Wic-gerefa of Lunden-wic being the personage in authority, the king’s hall in the wic, the place of trial. H. and E. 16.