The Ridpath Library of Universal Literature, Vol. 12 of 25: A Biographical and Bibliographical Summary of the World's Most Eminent Authors, Including ... Comprising the Best Features of Many Celebrat - Rilegato

Ridpath, John Clark

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ISBN 10: 0483778362 ISBN 13: 9780483778368

Casa editrice: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from The Ridpath Library of Universal Literature, Vol. 12 of 25: A Biographical and Bibliographical Summary of the World's Most Eminent Authors, Including the Choicest Extracts and Masterpieces From Their Writings, Comprising the Best Features of Many Celebrated Compilations, Notably, the Guernsey Collection, the De Pu

It was this sharing the common land which marked off the Ceorl or free-man from the Lazi, the tiller of land which another owned. As the Ceorl was the descendant of settlers who, whether from their earlier arrival or from kinship with the original settlers of the village, had been admitted to a share in its land and its corpo rate life, so the Laet was a descendant of later comers to whom such a share was denied, or in some cases, per haps, of earlier dwellers from whom the land had been wrested by force of arms. In the modern sense of free dom the Laet was free enough. He had house and home of his own his life and limb were secure as the Ceorl's, save as against his lord. It is probable, from what we see in later laws, that as time went on he was recognized among the three tribes as a member of the nation, suin moned to the folk-moot, allowed equal right at law, and called like the full free-man to the husting. But he was unfree as regards law and land. He had neither part nor lot in the common land of the village. The ground which he had tilled he held of some free-man of the tribe to whom he paid rent in labor or in kind and this man was his lord. Whatever rights the unfree villager might gain in the general social life of his fellow-villagers, he had no rights as against his lord. He could leave neither land nor lord at his will. He was bound to render due service to his lord in tillage or in fight. So long, how ever, as these services were done, the land was his own. His lord could not take it from him and he was bound to give him aid and protection in exchange for his ser Vices.

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• Editore: Forgotten Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2018
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0483778362
• ISBN 13: 9780483778368
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 504
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