The lands of the churches, 226. How the churches acquired their lands, 227. The earliest land-books, 229. Exotic character of the book, 230. The book purports to convey ownership, 230. The book conveys a superiority, 231. A modern analogy, 232. Conveyance of superiorities in early times, 233. What had the king to give? 234. The king's alienable rights, 234. Royal rights in land, 235. The king's _feorm_, 236. Nature of the _feorm_, 237. Tribute and rent, 239. Mixture of ownership and superiority, 240. Growth of the seignory, 241. Book-land and church-right, 242. Book-land and testament, 243.
§ 2. _Book-land and Folk-land_, pp. 244-258.
What is folk-land? 244. Folk-land in the laws, 244. Folk-land in the charters, 245. Land booked by the king to himself, 246. The consent of the witan, 247. Consent and witness in the land-books, 247. Attestation of the earliest books, 248, Confirmation and attestation, 250. Function of the witan, 251. The king and the people's land, 252. King's land and crown land, 253. Fate of the king's land on his death, 253. The new king and the old king's heir, 254. Immunity of the ancient demesne, 255. Rights of individuals in national land, 255. The _alod_, 256. Book-land and privilege, 257. Kinds of land and kinds of right, 257.
Importance of seignorial justice, 258. Theory of the modern origin of seignorial justice, 258. Sake and soke in the Norman age, 259. The Confessor's writs, 259. Cnut's writs, 260. Cnut's law, 261. The book and the writ, 261. Diplomatics, 262. The Anglo-Saxon writ, 264. Sake and soke appear when writs appear, 265. Traditional evidence of sake and soke, 267. _Altitonantis_, 268. Criticism of the earlier books, 269. The clause of immunity, 270. Dissection of the words of immunity, 272. The _trinoda necessitas_, 273. The _ángild_, 274. The right to wites and the right to a court, 275. The Taunton book, 276. The immunists and the wite, 277. Justice and jurisdiction, 277. The Frankish immunity, 278. Seignorial and ecclesiastical jurisdiction, 279. Criminal justice of the church, 281. Antiquity of seignorial courts, 282. Justice, vassalage and tenure, 283. The lord and the accused vassal, 284. The state, the lord and the vassal, 285. The _landríca_ as immunist, 286. The immunist's rights over free men, 288. Sub-delegation of justiciary rights, 289. Number of the immunists, 289.