CHAP. XV.: The same Subject continued.

WE must observe, that the fiefs having been changed into church-lands, and these again into fiefs, they borrowed something of each other. Thus the church-lands had the privileges of fiefs, and these had the privileges of church-lands. Such were the See the capitularies, book 5. art. 44. and the edict of Pistes in the year 869. art. 8. and 9. where we find the honorary rights of the lords established, in the same manner as they are at this very day. ^†1227honorary rights of churches, which began at that time. And as those rights have been ever annexed to the judiciary power, in preference to what is still called the fief, it follows that the patrimonial jurisdictions were established at the same time with those very rights.