Lest it should be believed that this is our own interpretation of the legislation of the Assembly, it should be enough to refer the reader to the laws themselves, or to what Dalloz says about them.
Possession is enough.
It is true that the new laws allowed the cultivator to purchase the lease of the land. He felt that once more the lords had got the upper hand. On both sides people apparently decided to have no respect for it. 4 The lords, feeling themselves supported by the National Asssembly, began, therefore, angrily to exact all the feudal dues which the peasants had believed to be dead and buried. The peasants, on their side, seeing that nothing was to be got from the Assembly, continued in certain districts to carry on the war against the lords.