ce qu'on doit en flEdre, ' what is to be done with him

2a. tu crois savoir, 'you think you know.' Hère the subject of

the infinitive is the same as that of the verb croire. See Eve § 19a. 29. le mécréant. Mécréant (from the prefix mes-^ our mis-^ and

créant^ Norman form of croyant) meant originally and still means some-

times, * an unbeliever,* but like our * miscreant * it came to mean simply

' a rascal.'

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I. Le même droit de conquête. Roman jurists justifîed slavery by conquest, supposing that the conqueror, instead cf exercising his right of killing the conquered, made a slave of him ; and in fact many of the slaves in the ancient world were captured in war. But serfdom sprang from many causes besides conquest.