Theoretical and Practical Garden of Feudal Law

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Of Feudal Titles

BOOK I.

1. OF those who can grant a feud fief, and those who cannot, and how it is acquired and retained.
2. Of the feud fief of wardship and gastaldia an office of administrative jurisdiction.
3. Which successors are bound to grant a feud fief.
4. If there is a controversy concerning the investiture of a feud fief.
5. By what means a feud fief may be lost.
6. That a Bishop, or Abbot, or Abbess, or lord of the people, cannot grant a feud fief.
7. On the nature of the feud fief.
8. On the succession of the feud fief.
9. Which successors are bound.
10. On the contention between the lord and the vassal concerning the investiture of a feud fief.