p. 247.

Qui ex damnato coitu nascuntur, inter liberos non computantur.

Those who are the offspring of an illicit connexion are not reckoned as children.

An elder son, born before the marriage of his parents.

p. 248.

Mulier puisnè-Filius mulieratus.

A legitimate son, whose elder brother is illegitimate.

Eo quod desiit esse miles, &c. [Vide ante, vol. i. p. 132.]

p. 257.

Civiliter mortuus.

Dead in law.

p. 258.

Quod nullius est, id ratione naturali occupanti conceditur.

That which belongs to no one, is by natural reason grant

De minimis non curat lex.

The law takes not cognizance of small things.

p. 264.

Usu rem capere.

To take the thing by use.

p. 269.

Ecclesiæ de feudo domini regis non possunt in perpetuum dari, absque assensu et consensione ipsius.

Advowsons, of which the king has the fee, cannot be given in perpetuity without his consent and approval.

p. 270.

Non licet alicui de cætero dare terram suam alicui domui religiosæ, ita quod illam resumat tenendam de eadem domo; nec liceat alicui domui religiosæ terram alicujus sic accipere, quod tradat illam ei a quo ipsam recepit tenendam: si quis autem de cætero terram suam domui religiosa

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sic dederit, ut super hoc convincatur, donum suum penitus cassetur, ut terra illa domino suo illius feodi incurratur.

It is not lawful for any one to give his land to a religious house for the purpose of taking it again to hold of that house; neither is it lawful for any religious house thus to receive land in order to restore it to its original owner to hold of that house: but if any one shall have so given his land, and can be convicted of the fact, his gift shall be utterly void, and the land escheat to the lord of the fee.

Et quod non habet principium, non habet finem.
And that which has no beginning has no end.

p. 281.

De bonis asportatis.

For carrying away the goods.

p. 282.

Si vasallus feudum dissipaverit, aut insigni detrimento deterius fecerit, privabitur.

If a vassal shall have wasted the fee, or lessened its value by any notorious injury, he shall be deprived of it.

p. 284.

Feloniæ, per quas vasallus amitteret feudum.
Felonies, by which the vassal would lose his fee.

p. 285.

Nemo miles adimatur de possessione sui beneficii, nisi convicta culpa, quæ sit laudanda per judicium parium suorum.

No soldier shall be removed from the possession of his benefice, unless convicted of some offence, which must be declared by the judgment of his peers.

p. 285.

Arbitranda, definienda.

To be judged, to be declared.

p. 288.

Possessiones in jurisdictionalibus non aliter apprehendi posse, quam per attournances et avirances, ut loqui solent; cum vasallus, ejurato prioris domini obsequio et fide, novo se sacramento novo item domino acquirenti obstringebat; idque jussu auctoris.

Possessions with a right of jurisdiction can only be taken by attorning or professing to become tenant, as it is usually called; when the vassal resigning his former obedience and faith, bound himself by a fresh oath to the new lord, and that by the command of his ancient lord.

p. 288.

Emptiones vel acquisitiones suas det cui magis velit. Terram autem quam ei parentes dederunt non mittat extra cognationem suam.

He may give his purchases or acquisitions to whomsoever he pleases. But the land which descended to him he cannot alien from his kindred.

p. 289.

Si questum tantum habuerit is, qui partem terræ suæ donare voluerit, tunc quidem hoc ei licet: sed non totum questum, quia non potest filium suum hæredem exhæredare.

If he, who wishes to give a part of his land, has only

what he has acquired himself, he may lawfully do it: but he cannot alien the whole, because he cannot disinherit his son and heir.

Sub modo.

p. 291.

In a certain degree.

p. 291.

Dum fuit non compos mentis suæ, ut dicit.
While he was of unsound mind, as he says.

Habendum et tenendum. To have and to hold.

p. 299.

Tenendum per servitium militare, in burgagio, in libero socagio.

To hold by military service, in burgage, in free socage.

p. 299.

De capitalibus dominis feodi.

Of the chief lords of the fee.

p. 305.

Propria manu pro ignorantia literarum signum sanctæ crucis expressi et subscripsi.

On account of my ignorance of letters, I have impressed and subscribed with my own hand the sign of the holy cross.