Excerpt from The Law of Tenures, Including the Theory and Practice of Copyholds: With an Historical Introduction on the Feudal System, and Copious Notes and Illustrations
The property of the soil and the source of power were vested in the society; but as the chief represented that society, the property of the soil, and the source of power, became vested in the chief. Hence every individual who was entitled to a portion of territory was said to hold either mediately or immediately of him (i); and hence also was be deemed the fountain of justice.
A tribe, therefore, possessing a tract of con Distribution of quered country, reserved a part of it for the lands' purposes of the state, which was denominated the fisc or demesnes. This the king or chief enjoyed, as the representative of the nation, in his political capacity (k) the other part was divided among the great personages who attended I X him in his expedition. Those personages con quered for themselves as well as for their leader.
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