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the man does not want to prove by his oath, the claim is just as it is for the lord with any other man.

X. The tenth chapter. Concerning the man who asks his lord what he holds, and he says that the thing is part of his fief.

If a man requests of his lord something that he [the lord] holds, and the man says that it is part of his fief, and that he [the man] or his ancestors had been in seisin of it and were holding it as part of their fief, and he has neither charter nor register of the court, then he should prove his right to hold it by two faithful Latin Christian witnesses. And the lord can raise up one of the witnesses for such a man, when the witness is a knight or a sergeant. And if the dispute is for a mark of silver, there will be combat. And in that [case], the oath of fidelity does not establish anything, becuase that is no part of the dispute; that is only about [the nature of the] seisin. Because if he had it by outright seisin, he can lose it for any reason.

XI. The eleventh chapter. Concerning the man who makes a request of his lord concerning his fief.

If the man requests from his lord something that he says is of his fief and he had demanded that in court, and the lord does not wish to render it at all within his court and if after that the lord should call him to go into his service, he can say to the lord in court: "I don't accept your summons at all, nor do I want to accept it, if the court does not recognize it, until you have rendered such a thing to me of which I am diminished in my fief, for which I owe you service, or until you have given me the ruling of your court. And according to that which I have said, I have placed myself in the judgment of the court." The law is such: that he does not owe him service, until he has done one of two things. And whichever of the two things the lord does for him, either to render it to him or to place it before the court, he should once again have his service as before. And if the lord does not make note of his service and wants to hold the thing, the man can come into the court and say: "Lords, you know how I have requested from my lord that he should surender to me the thing that is from my fief or hear me out in court. And so he wishes to say nothing against my request, and so you see how he diminishes me, because of which I ask of you and call on you as my peers that you should uphold me by the law." Then the men of the court must say to the lord: "Lord, we demand hereby that you [with regard] to that one who is your man," or ours, "follow the law and do one of the two things that he asks of you, and we give you for this three and a fortnight, which are seventeen days." And if the lord has not remedied within the said term, the men of the court should come before him and say: "Lord, know that until such time that you have done for your man So-and-So, who is our peer, one of the two things that he asks of you, than we will do nothing for you." And if the lord passes three and a fortnight, which is seventeen days, without remedying the matter, the men of the court must grant him [the man] seisin of the thing over which there was a dispute.

XII. The twelfth chapter. Concerning the lord who has taken and arrested his man.

If the lord has taken and arrested any of his men, the men of the court