With regards to the law of fiefs, the Livres states that dukes, counts, viscounts, and barons could all hold their land from one another.Reynolds, p .288. The Livres also states that la bone devise de droit des persones, des gens, est tele que tot homes ou il sont franc ou serf: "the good division of the law of persons is that all men are either free or servile."Kim, p. 2. This law is based on the Digest but the meaning of the word servi that the medieval author translates "serf" meant "slave".
