Note 71 — Chapter XV · HOMICIDE IN GENERAL (continued)

Brussel, Nouvel examen de l’usage général des fiefs en France, i. 144. How much the prelates were infected by the general spirit of the age, appears from a characteristic story of an archbishop of Cologne who gave to one of his vassals a castle situated on a sterile rock. When the vassal objected that he could not subsist on such a soil, the archbishop answered, “Why do you complain? Four roads unite under the walls of your castle” (Du Boys, Histoire du droit criminel de l’Espagne, p. 504).