Note 51 — Chapter I · DEFINITION AND DISTINCTION FROM KINDRED PHENOMENA.
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Schröder remarks, that the difference between freemen and subservients (Hörigen) consisted in this, that the landed possessions of the latter were smaller and liable to tribute. Moreover, they had no connubium with freemen, nor any political rights; the wergild paid for them was one half of that paid for a freeman51.