oe qu'on doit en faire, 'what b to be done with him

32. tu crois savoir, 'you think you know.* Hère the subject of

the infinîtive is the same as that of the verb croire. See Eve § 192. 29. le mécréant. Mécréant (from the prefix tnes-^ oor 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 môme droit de conquête. Roman jurists justified slavery by conquest, supposing that the conqueror, instead of 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