[Footnote 134: A new example of the mischief of equivocation
is the beneficium (Ducange, tom. i. p. 617, &c.,) which the
pope conferred on the emperor Frederic I., since the Latin
word may signify either a legal fief, or a simple favor, an
obligation, (we want the word bienfait.) (See Schmidt, Hist.
des Allemands, tom. iii. p. 393 - 408. Pfeffel, Abrege
Chronologique, tom. i. p. 229, 296, 317, 324, 420, 430, 500,
505, 509, &c.)]