General Obligation of the Estate-Owning Lordships.
122. Every lordship is obliged to keep its subjects, in case of need, employed in work.
123. It must create the opportunity, so far as it is able, for those among its subjects who are not yet settled to earn their livings.
124. If it is unable to do this, it must allow them, on their request, to seek their bread outside the lordship’s boundaries, and provide them with necessary authorization.
125. The lordship is especially obliged to care for good and Christian education of its subjects’ children. [ . . . ]
General Obligations of the Subjects.
133. Subjects owe their lordships loyalty, respect, and obedience.
134. They are obliged to render them labor services and dues as more precisely stipulated below. [ . . . ]
Fourth Section. On Subjects’ Personal Duties and Rights
Subjects’ Personal Freedom
147. Apart from their relationship to the estate to which they are attached, subjects are considered, in their private business dealings and negotiated arrangements, free citizens of the state. [ . . . ]
Tangible Rights of the Lordship over Them
150. They may not quit the estate they are attached to without their landlords’ permission.
151. But they may not be -- apart from the estate they below to -- sold, exchanged or otherwise transferred against their will to another landlord. [ . . . ]
Marriage
161. Subjects are obliged to seek their lordships’ consent to their intended marriage.
162. The lordship may not, however, refuse consent without lawful grounds. [ . . . ]
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