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And then, was it nothing to wield absolute supremacy over the sergeants of the police, the porter and watch of the Châtelet, the two auditors of the Châtelet, auditores castelleti , the sixteen commissioners of the sixteen quarters, the jailer of the Châtelet, the four enfeoffed sergeants, the hundred and twenty mounted sergeants, with maces, the chevalier of the watch with his watch, his sub-watch, his counter-watch and his rear-watch?

Mediante esta ultima, un Lord senor feudal (en viejo frances anglo--normado medieval = feoffor (88) use)investia (enfeoff (89)) y transmitia la propiedad de su inmueble (freehold state in land) a uno o varios terceros feoffees in use, para que estos ultimos lo conservasen, explotasen (management) y retornasen ciertos bienes y servicios en beneficio de uno o varios terceros: cestui que use le feoffment fuit fait (90).

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("We discard the archaic rule that one cannot enfeoff oneself....

The above mentioned Chiefs Iramoo being possessed of the tract of Land hereinafter mentioned for and in consideration of Twenty Pair of Blankets, Thirty / Tomahawks, One Hundred Knives [two illegible words] Scissors, Thirty Looking Glasses, Two Hundred Handkerchiefs, and one Hundred Pounds of Flour, and Six Shirts / delivered to Us by John Batman residing in Van Diemens Land Esquire but at present sojourning with us and our Tribe Do for ourselves our / Heirs and Successors Give Grant Enfeoff and confirm unto the said John Batman his heirs and assigns All that tract of Country situate and being at Port Phillip, Runing / from the branch of the River at the top of the Port about 7 Miles from the mouth of the River, Forty Miles North East and from thence-West.

they criticize Leo Buss for thinking that sequestering the germ line helps enfeoff a metazoan's somatic cells to the good of their organism: I find this contradiction as incomprehensible as it is uncharacteristic).

Though Figura does not enfeoff Eve with Paradise, it is clear that she has a right to remain there so long as she upholds her part of the contract, so long as she renders God the "servise" due Him both in loyalty and in obedience to the "droiz de mariage." Of course, technically a woman in the twelfth century could not have been a vassal; as Morgan points out, Eve's "sex debars her from the obligations of such a contract."(10) Yet it is evident that the Mystere author depicts Eve as such, perhaps recalling a scripturally-based hierarchy that would deem male and female alike "vassals of God" by virtue of their mutual subservience to the Creator.

They apparently refused to treat Luo with the respect accorded an elder brother and attempted unsuccessfully to block the Empress' plan to enfeoff him.

In an effort to trump the Catholics at their own game, Jewel even implicitly ascribed priestly powers to Elizabeth: "Jewel's purpose was to strip the papal claims to sovereignty from the pope, and having done this, to enfeoff them to Elizabeth" (108).

(41-48) Though Figura does not enfeoff Eve with Paradise, it is clear that she has a right to remain there so long as she upholds her part of the contract, so long as she renders God the "servise" due Him both in loyalty and in obedience to the "droiz de mariage." Of course, technically a woman in the twelfth century could not have been a vassal; as Morgan points out, Eve's "sex debars her from the obligations of such a contract." (10) Yet it is evident that the Mystere author depicts Eve as such, perhaps recalling a scripturally-based hierarchy that would deem male and female alike "vassals of God" by virtue of their mutual subservience to the Creator.