Note 179 — THE ORIGIN OF PROPERTY IN LAND

Lex Alamann., xlv. Pertz, p. 60; edit. Lehmann, pp. 104-105. It is the word pares which deceives him. He believes he sees in this word the “markgenossen”; but pares means the companions, the friends, those who have adopted the cause of one or other of the adversaries. Similarly article 93 of the same law punishes the man who, while with the army, deserts parem suum, i.e., his comrade in the battle.