five-clause

Updated: May 19, 2025

This last provision, and the clause declaring that each man shall know his warrantor, inserted in a five-clause treaty, where nothing but what the contracting parties must hold to be of the very first importance would find place, are another curious proof of the care with which our ancestors, and all Germanic tribes, guarded against social isolation the doctrine that one man has nothing to do with another a doctrine which the great body of their descendants, under the leading of Schultze, Delitzsch, and others, seem likely to repudiate with equal emphasis in these latter days, both in Germany and England.

- The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 05 : (From Charlemagne to Frederick Barbarossa)