HIST 3902 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Lit De Justice
23 Apr 2016
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Venalit (the buying and selling of public office) Gage (annual salary crown paid to the owner of the office. Paulette (payment annual to the royal treasury you could legate it to your son like any other piece of property 1/60th is the price. Disadvantages - exposure to shakedowns, in the end it worked favorably for the crown. Control but cannot dismiss someone from an office, he had to pay out the sum of the purchase. Holder of the office much closer to the other office holders like him especially from provinces and provinces pov, ambivalent status then if the service was dismissed at the kings wishes. Exposure to shakedown, did not dismiss but change terms on which they held office, always done to make money. Holding office in rotation - decrease gage and the value of their office original term so much per year and now that has been halved.
