[Footnote 154: The substitutions of fidei-commissaires of
the modern civil law is a feudal idea grafted on the Roman
jurisprudence, and bears scarcely any resemblance to the
ancient fidei-commissa, (Institutions du Droit Francois,
tom. i. p. 347 - 383. Denissart, Decisions de
Jurisprudence, tom. iv. p. 577 - 604.) They were stretched
to the fourth degree by an abuse of the clixth Novel; a
partial, perplexed, declamatory law.]