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if he has a charter for this, he has to render it to the buyer. And if he says that he does not have it, he should swear that when he will have it, he will give it to him or his heirs. And the king should make a charter for the buyer concerning the terms of the purchase, and that this purchase has such homage and such service and to such heirs, just as he who sold it had. However, no man can purchase a fief who already has a fief, if he is not the son of a knight and his wedded wife. The king receives the money, pays the debt from it, and keeps the remainder, to know if he owes something else, for seven days; afterwards he gives back the remainder of the money to the unfortunate man who sold his fief.

XIX. The nineteenth chapter. How and concerning what one is due to have one's day in court.

It is in the assise that, for all cases, one has one day within the fortnight, except for in cases of open murder and grievous assault and unnecessary force and unsanctioned cavalcade; and concerning all disagreements and changes of wording in the charge, one has a day in court.