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The English Village Community

Note 355 — Chapter VIII · CONNEXION BETWEEN THE ROMAN LAND SYSTEM AND THE LATER MANORIAL SYSTEM.

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Lex Salica, xxxix. (cod. ii.), 4. 'Nomina hominum et villarum semper debeat nominare.'

xlv. (De Migrantibus). When any one wants to move from one 'villa' to another, he cannot do so without the licence of those 'qui in villa consistunt;' but if he has removed and stayed in another 'villa' twelve months, 'securus sicut et alii vicini maneat.'

xiv. 'Si quis villa aliena adsalierit. . . .'

xlii. v. 'Si quis villam alienam expugnaverit. . . .'

Capitulare Ludovici Primi, ix. 'De eo qui villam alterius occupaverit' (Hessels and Kern's edition, p. 419).

Chlodovechi Regis Capitula (id. p. 408), A.D. 500–1. 'De hominem inter duas villas occisum.'

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