35 .-- Of Heretoches and their election, vide Id.
eodem.
Probibitum erat etiam in eadem lege, ne quis emeret vivum animal vel pannum usatum sine plegiis et bonis testibus .-- Of other particulars of buying and selling, vide Leges Ed.Conf.

38.
[59] Sheriff in the Norman times was merely the king's officer, not the earl's.

The earl retained his ancient fee, without jurisdiction; the sheriff did all the business.

The elective sheriff must have disappeared on the Conquest; for then all land was the king's, either immediately or mediately, and therefore his officer governed.
[60] How this assembly was composed, or by what right the members sat in it, I cannot by any means satisfy myself.

What is here said is, I believe, nearest to the truth.
[61] Hence, perhaps, all men are supposed cognizant of the law.
[62] Debet etiam rex omnia rite facere in regno, et per judicium procerum regni .-- Debet ...