Note 70 — THE ORIGIN OF PROPERTY IN LAND

Ibidem: “Hucusque antecessores mei tenuerunt et in alodem mihi reliquerunt.” The word alodis in the language of this period has no other meaning but inheritance. [On the meaning of alod see chap. iv. in the author’s work L’Alleu et le Domaine Rural, which has appeared since his death.]