Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: INDEX. ACRES, 6-7, 80, 131, 134-136. Adoption, 66, 69-73, 222-226. Agilofingi, family of the, 32, 185. Affatimum, 70-73, 223-225. Agri, (in Caesar IV. 1), 210-211; (in Tacitus Germ. 26), 4-5, 126, 129- 133, 231; (in the Annales IV. 72), 211. Agricultural life, transition from the pastoral to the, 3, 126. Agriculture, introduction of, 1-3, 126. Alfred, King, keeps half his forces in the field, half at home, 126; his will, 182-183. Alienation, right of, 54-56, 66, 73-75, 209-210, 224, 226, 228-229. Alienations in casa, 71, 225-226. Allodial property, nature of it, 248 ; concentration of it, 99-101, 102, 105, 210; converted into hereditary tenures, 100, 106, 247; con- verted into tenures in villenage, 247. Almend, 138-139, 196 ; almend formula, 87, 152, 237. Alod, 35, 58, 174-175, 189. Ancestor worship, a theory as to its origin, 189. Ancient houses, 26. Appropriation of unoccupied land, 13-14, 28, 151, 153, 168,171-175, 177- 178, 193. Arable lots, occupied according to the number of cultivators, pro numero cultorum, 4-6, 14, 16, 27, 129-133, 147-148, 151-152, 172-173, 231; shifted about, 7-8, 138 ; held in rotation, 10, 83; distribution of them in the free colonies, 80-83, 232. Authority, too much deference paid to it, 65. Auvergne, custom of inheritance in, 103, 249. BAED, his letter to Abp. Ecgbirht, 170; he refers to the custom of primo- geniture, 249. Benefices, 105-108, 250. Beneficiaries, 106-108, 251. Bibliography, 111-122, 252-261 Blood, kinship, as a bond of union, 66, 90, 195. Boc-land, 170-171, 182. Borough English, 104. Boundaries, none in the early time, 12, 17, 19, 23, 148-149 ; how first laid down, 13, 149-150. Burgundian Law, not... --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.