LES ENFANTS

Leg. Wall. T. II. L. VIII. Ch. XI, n. 34, p. 221.

« Parents are to place a son under the hand of a priest -when he shall be seven years of âge, and then he can commit and receive saraad ; and at the end of fourteen years he is to become a lord's man ; at the âge of twenty one he is to take land from his lord, and do military service for him, and pay daered to him thenceforth as another man. »

Ibid., cod. Vened. T. I. L. II. Ch. 38, n. 5, p. 303.

« From the time when a boy is born, until he shall be fourteen years of âge, he is to be at his father's platter, and his father lord over him, and he is to receive no punishment but that of his father; and he is not to possess one penny of his property during that time, only in common with his father. »

« At the end of fourteen years, the father is to bring his son to the lord, and commend him to his charge; and then the youth is to become is man, and to be on the privilège of his lord ; and he is himself to answer to every claim that may be made on him; and is to possess his own property : thenceforward his father is not to correct him, upon complaint made by the son against him, he is subject to diricy, and his to do him right for the saraad. »

« If the son die after fourteen years of âge, and leave no heir, his lord is to possess ail his property, and to be in the place of a son to him, and his house become a