He has his prison for delinquents of various kinds, and sometimes his forked gibbets.

On the other hand, as compensation for his judicial costs, he obtains the property of the man condemned to death and the confiscation of his estate.

He succeeds to the bastard born and dying in his seigniory without leaving a testament or legitimate children.

He inherits from the possessor, legitimately born, dying in testate in his house without apparent heirs.

He appropriates to himself movable objects, animate or inanimate, which are found astray and of which the owner is unknown; he claims one-half or one-third of treasure-trove, and, on the coast, he takes for himself the waif of wrecks.