36/40 459, &c .-- Manso observes that this division was conducted not in a violent and irregular, but in a legal and orderly, manner. The Barbarian, who could not show a title of grant from the officers of Theodoric appointed for the purpose, or a prescriptive right of thirty years, in case he had obtained the property before the Ostrogothic conquest, was ejected from the estate. He conceives that estates too small to bear division paid a third of their produce .-- Geschichte des Os Gothischen Reiches, p. Maffei (Verona Illustrata, P.i.p. 228) exaggerates the injustice of the Goths, whom he hated as an Italian noble. |