Est quiddam perfectius in rebus licitis

There is something more perfect in things which are permitted. Est quidem alia praestatio quae nominator heriettum; obi tenens, liber vel servos, in morte sua, dominum suum, de quo tenuerit, respicit de meliori averio suo, vel de secundo meliori, secundum diversam locorum consuetudinem. There is a certain other sort of prestation which is called a heriot; where a tenant, whether a freeman or a slave, at his death provides the lord of whom he held with his best beast or with the second best, according to the custom of the place. See 2 Bl Comm 424.