We must observe that the fiefs
having been changed into church-lands, and these again into fiefs, they
borrowed something of each other. Thus the church-lands had the
privileges of fiefs, and these had the privileges of church-lands. Such
were the honorary rights of churches, which began at that time.
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And
as those rights have ever been annexed to the judiciary power, in
preference to what is still called the fief, it follows that the
patrimonial jurisdictions were established at the same time as those
very rights.
