Speech of Duport: "Whatever is unjust cannot last.

Similarly, no compensation for these unjust rights can be maintained." Sitting of February 27, 1790.

M.
Populus: "As slavery could not spring from a legitimate contract, because liberty cannot be alienated, you have abolished without indemnity hereditary property in persons." Instructions and decree of June 15-19, 1791: "The National Assembly has recognized in the most emphatic manner that a man never could become the proprietor of another man, and consequently, that the rights which one had assumed to have over the person of the other, could not become the property of the former." Cf.

the diverse reports of Merlin to the Committee of Feudality and the National Assembly.] [Footnote 2221: Duvergier, "Collection des Lois et Decrets." Laws of the 4-11 August, 1789; March 15-28, 1790; May 3-9, 1790; June 15-19, 1791.] [Footnote 2222: Agrier percieres--terms denoting taxes paid in the shape of shares of produce.

Those which follow: lods, rentes, quint, requint belong to the taxes levied on real property.