349/1 Bracton, fol. 62a.

349/2 Y.B. 20 & 21 Ed. I. 232; cf. ib. 312.

349/3 Oates v.  Frith, Hob. 130.  Cf.  Y.B. 5 Hen.  VII. 18, pl. 12; Popham, J., in Overton v.  Sydall, Poph. 120, 121 (E. 39 El.); Boyer v.  Rivet, 3 Bulstr. 317, 319-322; Brooker’s Case, Godb. 376, 380 (P. 3 Car.  I.).

349/4 Bain v.  Cooper, 1 Dowl.  Pract.  Cas.  N. s. 11, 14.  Cf.  Y.B. 14 Hen.  VIII. pl. 5, at fol. 10.

350/1 Bract., fol. 66 b, 76 b, and passim; Y.B. 20 Ed. I. 226, 200; Littleton, Section 241.  The same thing was said where there were several executors:  “They are only in the place of one person.”  Y.B. 8 Ed. IV. 5,pl. 1.

350/2 Comm. 385.

350/3 Cf.  Glanv., Lib.  VII. c. 3; F. N. B. 21 L; Dyer, 4 b, 5 a.

351/1 Cf.  Bract., fol. 80 b.

351/2 Charta Divis.  Reg.  Franc., Art.  IX. & VIII.  Cf. 3 Laferriere, Hist. du Droit Francais, 408, 409.

351/3 Glanv., Lib.  IX. c. 1 (Beames, pp. 218, 220); Bract., fol. 79 b.

352/1 Brooker’s Case, Godbolt, 376, 377, pl. 465.

352/2 Dyer, 1 b.  Cf.  Bain v.  Cooper, 1 Dowl.  Pr.  C. N. s. 11, 12.

354/1 In the American Law Review for October, 1872, VII. 49, 50, I mentioned one or two indications of this fact.  But I have since had the satisfaction of finding it worked out with such detail and learning in Ihering’s Geist des Roemischen Rechts, Sections 10, 48, that I cannot do better than refer to that work, only adding that for my purposes it is not necessary to go so far as Ihering, and that he does not seem to have been led to the conclusions which it is my object to establish.  See, further, Clark, Early Roman Law, 109, 110; Laferriere, Hist. du Droit Frang., I. 114 et seq.; D. 1.5. 4, Section 3; Gaii Inst.  IV.  Section 16; ib.  II.  Section 69.

356/1 Erbvertraege, I. 15 et seq.

356/2 Hist. du Droit Franc., IV. 500.

357/3 “Quantum dare voluerit aut totam furtunam eui voluerit dare . . . nec minus nec majus nisi quantum ei creditum est.”  Lex Sal.  (Merkel), XLVI.

357/4 Lex Sal. (Merkel), Cap.  XLVI., De adfathamire; Sohm, Frank.  Reichs- u.  Gerichtsverfassung, 69.

357/6 Beseler, Erbvertraege, I. 101, 102, 105.

358/1 “Omnem facultatem suam. . . seu cuicunque libet de proximis vel extraneis, adoptare in hereditatem vel in adfatimi vel per scripturarum seriem seu per traditionem.”  L. Rib.  Cap.  L. (al.  XLVIII.); cf.  L. Thuring.  XIII.  So Capp.  Rib.  Section 7:  “Qui filios non habuerit et aliurn quemlibet heredem facere sibi voluerit coram rege . . . traditionem faclat.”

357/2 Ed. Roth., cap. 174, 157; cf. lb. 369, 388; Liutpr.  III. 16 (al. 2), VI. 155 (al. 102).  Cf.  Beseler, Erbvertraege, I. 108 et seq., esp. 116-118.  Compare the charter of A.D. 713, “Offero . . .  S. P. ecclesia quam mihi heredem constitui.” (Mem. di Lucca V. b.  No. 4.) Troya III.  No. 394, cited Heusler, Gewere, 45, 46.  Cf. ib. 484.  This, no doubt, was due to Roman influence, but it recalls what Sir Henry Maine quotes from Elphinstone’s History of India (I. 126), as to sale by a member of one of the village communities:  “The purchaser steps exactly into his place, and takes up all his obligations.”  Ancient Law, ch. 8, pp. 263, 264.