Note 214 — Chapter V · PERSONAL RANK. THE FREEMAN. THE NOBLE.
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“Si quis liber homo migrare voluerit aliquo, potestatem habeat infra dominium regni nostri, cum fara sua, migrare quo voluerit.” Leg. Roth. 177. The free folk on the Leutkircher Heide “are free and shall have no nachjagende Herr,” (i. e. Lord hunting after them, the Dominus persequens of our early law-books). Lünig. Reichsarch. p. spec. cont. 4. p. 803. See further Grimm, Deut. Rechtsalt. 286, etc.