Note 157 — Chapter IV · LANDED POSSESSION. THE EÐEL, HÍD OR ALOD.
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That it was a fixed and not a variable quantity, both as to form and extent, seems to follow from the expressions, three acres wide (Cod. Dipl. No. 781), iii acera brǽde, i. e. three acres breadth (Leg. Æðelst. iv. 5), ix acræ latitudine (Leg. Hen. I. cap. xvi.).