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XXVIII.
If these do not concur, we conclude that there is a need for a new process and a new action.
XXIX.
As a concluding point, we state that reprisals, or as others prefer and indeed more properly call them, clarigations A formal legal demand or protest preceding an act of reprisal., are today prohibited in the Roman Empire for the sake of preserving public tranquility, and that those who complain of denied justice are aided by another, and indeed a most healthy, remedy (as is clear from the Ordinance of the Imperial Chamber).
It is truer that marriage is completed by consent alone, not by the subsequent leading of the bride into the groom's house.
Also agreeable to the truth is that the profit of the dowry, by the disposition of the statute, pertains to the groom.
II.
We shall endeavor to defend that the husband is the true owner of the thing granted to him as a dowry.
As often as a vassal is excluded from a fief due to a crime committed against his lord, or any other offense (provided it offers a cause for the deprivation of the fief), his sons are also considered excluded at the same time.
II.
So much so that they can no longer aspire to the fief, even if it had been granted by pact and provision.
III.
A fief, by a vassal without the lord's request, yet in most urgent necessity (which is not subject to the laws),