I have also recently come across the droit de havage, which was supposedly (again, this is all scary stories invented by French republicans about the Anciens Regime) the right of executioners to seize as much food from the market free of charge as they could carry with both hands
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The droit de cuissage is where it's at, my friend.
9:30 AM - 20 Jul 2018
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