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the total of the sale in kind or money, at our option, the 

 third part and the tenth, in such a way that if the sale be 

 one of thirty arpens, for a sum of three hundred livres, we 

 shall have the produce of ten arpens for the third part, or 

 thirty in all, and three for the tenth part of the same 

 quantity, which will be thirteen arpens for thirty; or, if 

 we take it in money, a hundred livres for the third part of 

 three hundred livres, and thirty livres for the tenth of the 

 same sum of three hundred livres. 



'4. If there be found some woods in our Province of 

 Normandy for which the private persons having title and 

 possession only pay a part of this right that is to say, 

 simply the Tiers or third, or only the Danger, which is the 

 tenth ; we will that their be no innovation in regard to 

 this. 



'5. The possessors of woods subject to Tiers et Danger 

 may take by their own hand for their usage of woods of 

 the nine kinds specified in Art. ix. of the Norman Charter 

 of King Louis the Tenth, of the year 1315, which are 

 these: Willows, morsaules, thorns, puisnes, seur, alders, 

 brooms, junipers, and briars, and dead wood in trunk or 

 root, or lying on the ground. 



' 6. We declare the right to Tiers et Danger in the 

 woods of our Province of Normandy to be imprescribable 

 and inalienable, as constituting part of the ancient Domain 

 of our Crown. 



' 7. All woods situated in Normandy, beyond those 

 which are hand-planted, and dead wood excepted by the 

 Norman Charter, shall be subject to this right if the 

 possessors be not endowed by authentic titles and usages 

 to the contrary. 



' 8. The rights of properties held in co-proprietorship 

 with other seigneurs, and those of Grurie, Grairie, Tiers et 

 Danger, cannot be given away, sold, nor alienated in whole 

 or in part, nor even farmed out under any reason or pre- 

 text whatever, there being renewed, in so far as may to 

 this end be necessary, the prohibition to this effect con- 

 tained in the tenth article of the ordinance De Moulin* ^ 



