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Footnotes
When it was not determined by the law, it was generally the third of what was given for the composition, as appears in the law of the Ripuarians, cap. lxxxix, which is explained by the third Capitulary of the year 813. — Edition of Baluzius, i, p. 512.
Tit. 46. See also the law of the Lombards, i. cap. xxi, 3, Lindembrock's edition, si caballus cum pede, &c.
"Capitulare incerti anni," chap. 57, in Baluzius, tome i p. 515, and it is to be observed, that what was called fredum or faida, in the monuments of the first race, is known by the name of bannum in those of the second race, as appears from the Capitulary de partibus Saxoniæ, in the year 789.
See the Capitulary of Charlemagne, de villis, where he ranks these freda among the great revenues of what was called villæ, or the king's demesnes.
See the Collections of those charters, especially that at the end of the 5th volume of the "Historians of France," published by the Benedictine monks.
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