Theory Of The Feudal Laws Among The Franks on Superphysics

The Source of feudal Laws

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The feudal laws form a very beautiful prospect.

THE conquerors of the Roman empire came from Germany.

Caesar making war against the Germans and described their manners.

Upon these, he regulated some of his enterprises.

The Goths, Burgundians, and Franks

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GAUL was invaded by German nations.

The Visigoths took possession of the province of Narbonue, and of almost all the south.

The Burgundians settled in the east; and the Franks subdued very near all the rest.

Servitudes

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Chapter 11: Servitudes

The many servitudes in France towards the beginning of the third race led to the notion of a general regulation made at the time of the conquest

The Census

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AFTER the Barbarians had quitted their own country, they wanted to have their deeds written.

But they found a difficulty in writing German words with Roman letters, so they published these laws in Latin.

The Census

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Chapter 17: The Military Service of Freemen

TWO sorts of people were bound to military service:

The vassals

These were obliged because of their fiefs.

The freemen, whether Franks, Romans, or Gauls, who servedunder the count, and were commanded by him and his officers.

The name of freemen was given to those, who on the one hand had no benefices or fiefs, and on the other were not subject to the base services of villainage; the lands they possessed were what they called allodial estates.

The double Service

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Chapter 18: The double Service

IT was a fundamental principle of the monarchy, that whosoever was subject to the military power of another person, was subject also to his civil jurisdiction.

What was afterwards called the Jurisdiction of the Lords

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BESIDE the composition which they were o= bliged to pay to the relations for murders or injuries, they were also unde= r a necessity of paying a certain duty, which the codes of the barbarian la= ws call=E2=80=A1 fredum. We have no term in our modern language to = express it; yet I intend to treat of it at large; and in order to give an i= dea of it, I begin with defining it a recompence for the protection granted= against the right of prosecution. Even to this day, f= red, in the Swedish language, signifies peace.

General Idea of the Abbe Du Bos=E2=80=99s Book on the Establishment of= the French Monarchy in Gaul

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BEFORE I finish this book, it will not b= e im, proper to write a few strictures on the Abbe du Bos’s performance, because my notions are perpetually contrary to his; and if he ha= s hit on the truth, I must have missed it.

The French Nobility

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THE Abbe du Bos maintains, that at the commencement of our monarchy there was only one order of citizens amo= ng the Franks.

This assertion, so injurious to the noble blood of our princ= ipal families, is equally affronting to the three great houses which succes= sively governed this realm. The origin of their grandeur would not therefor= e have been lost in the obscurity of time.