A Treatise on the Origin and Nature of Dignities, or Titles of Honor (Electronic book text)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. Excerpt from book: Section 3textit{habet in aliquo castro, ex concessione Principis, vel ut alii loqtam- tur, sumnue medice et infinice jurisdictionis; jus in arce quadam, a principe concessam. textit{ 6. By the feudal law dignities were transferable with the feuds to which they were annexed; so that if an estate, which had been erected into a duchy or marquisate, was sold with the consent of the feudal lord, the purchaser acquired the dignity, as well as the estate. textit{ 7. All dignities in France were feudal, and annexed to Dignities those lands over which the proprietor had a jurisdiction, m France, which were called textit{Seigneuries. Thus, Loyseau, an eminent French lawyer, who wrote in the sixteenth century, says " textit{La seigneurie est proprement attribute et inherente aujief, Traitcles textit{et indirectement communiques a la personne qui le possede. Selsnune8 textit{C'est pourquoi aux livres de Jief, quand on demande, Quis dicitur dux, marchio, aut comes ? on repond que C'est celui, Qui de ducatu, marchia, aut comitatu, investitus est: ce qui montre bien que le titre et dignite de duche, marquisat, et comte, reside proprement aujief. J'ai dit du Jief ayant justice, parce qu'une terre roturiere ne pent etre seignurie, ny avoir justice. Que si la justice vient d'etre concedee a un Franc aleu, il dement noble a cette occasion; parceque toute terre qui est en dignite est noble." textit{ 8. About the time of the Norman conquest, the nobility of France appear to have been divided into three classes. The textit{seigneur chdtelain, the baron, and the count. The textit{seigneur chdtelain was a person possessed of a feudal textit{seigneurie, held immediately of the crown, to which was annexed a right of administering justice in civil cases; and of erecting a textit{chateau, or fortified house. textit{Castella...