Handelang or handelag as from hand and lagen to lay

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1. 5. le miracle . Persons of high rank, unjustly slain, were often popularly reverenced as saints, and miracles were worked at their tombs. Simon de Montfort, Earl of Leicester, was so reverenced in England, though ne ver canonized.

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1. 5. rétat de guerre, the universal practice of semi-barbarous tribes organized in families and clans. Compare the Hebrew and Arab blood- revenge, Corsican vendetta, &c. The law at first only regulated this custom.

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1. 1. soit par la mollesse de volonté. Guntchramn is known in tradition as le bon roi Gontran , and has been canonized as a saint — though only a saint in comparison with other members of his family. He befriended the church, however.

1. 11. mal. The mallus was the armed assembly of freemen, which at first pronounced on most cases of importance. In judicial matters, however, its unwieldy size led to its delegating its functions to a selected body of judges.

1. 14. arimans — either men of honour (Germ. ehre ) as Thierry takes it, or = herimans (Germ. heer) or warriors , men of the army, as Ducange thinks.

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1. 29. rachimburgS) racimburgii or racinburdi , from either recht and bürger , men of right, of law, because they discharged (to the number of seven) the duties of judges or jurymen, or, as Savigny is inclined to believe, from rie , rich, powerful, and bürger , because they were merely the great men, the nobles, so to say, assembled at the mâl. Another dérivation connects this word with bürge , a surety; this seems to be favoured by Thierry.

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