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that the man loses the fief, which he held from him, and he is exiled for his entire life from that kingdom, and the lord is quit of his fidelity with regard to him; and he is not quit of his own fidelity to his own lord. And in this whole matter, the heirs of the man recieve no compensation. And the man should be accorded forty days in order to depart from the kingdom. And if any of his peers bring him to court for this default, of which he is condemned, he loses his body and all that he has, if the lord wishes, because he was at his mercy.

The lord should not arrest his man nor put his hands upon him, if he was not convicted and judged in court, either of treason or murder. And then he can do with him just as he would for any other man.

VI. The sixth chapter. Concerning the desizing of livelihood or of tenure.

The lord should not desize his man of his holdings without ruling or knowledge of his court.

VII. The seventh chapter. Concerning the postponement of homage when one asks for it.

If the lord complains both to himself and to the court concerning someone who holds a fief from him, for which he owes him homage, and if he says that that one has not done nor offered to do the homage which he owes him within the year and the day of receiving the fief; if this one is convicted, the remedy is the following: that the lord can hold the fief for which the homage is lacking, as long as the two live. And when one dies, the penalty is void.

VIII. The eighth concerning those who hold fiefs from those other than the king.

IX. The ninth chapter. Concerning when the lord
makes a complaint against his lord.

If the lord makes a complaint against his man, that he owes him service, and he accuses him that he has defaulted on his service to him, and if he [the man] is convicted by the decision of the court, the remedy for it is as follows: that the lord holds the fief for which he [the man] is in default to him, for a year and a day. But if he [the man] does not live through the year, his heir loses nothing.

IX b. Again concerning the lord, when he makes a complaint about his man.

If the lord makes a complaint about his man and says that he [the man] has something of his which is hereditary property, if the man says that this thing belongs to his fief, and he cannot prove it by charter or the register of the court, if it adheres to his fief, and he can prove it by his oath and by swearing on the gospels that this thing is of his fief, and then he is deemed quit in relation to his lord. But one of his peers may raise him up at the moment he swears as disloyal and a purjuer and as breaking faith with regard to his lord, and in doing so commits to combat because it is outright treason due to his broken oath, wishing to abandon his lord. And if he is defeated, he forfeits his life and what he has. And the heirs do not lose anything except for the disputed property which the claim was about. And if