Lecture Xvi.--Page 132

Of the state of persons, from the fifth to the tenth century.

Impossibility of determining this, according to any fixed and general principle.

The condition of lands not always correspondent with that of persons.

Variable and unsettled character of social conditions.

Slavery.

Attempt to determine the condition of persons according to the Wehrgeld.

Table of twenty-one principal cases of Wehrgeld.

Uncertainty of this principle.

The true method of ascertaining the condition of persons.

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