Savigny (i.
285) supposes that in many cases the property remained in the original owner, who paid his tertia, a third of the produce to the crown, vol.i.
p.

285 .-- M.] [Footnote 56: See the Gothic history of Procopius, (l.i.c.1, l.

ii.
c.

6,) the Epistles of Cassiodorus, passim, but especially the vth and vith books, which contain the formulae, or patents of offices,) and the Civil History of Giannone, (tom.i.l.ii.

iii.) The Gothic counts, which he places in every Italian city, are annihilated, however, by Maffei, (Verona Illustrata, P.i.