And in any case the net result appears fairly certain.

The bulk of British local government must have been carried on through Roman municipalities, through imperial estates, and still more through tribal _civitates_ using a Romanized constitution.
The bulk of the landed estates must have conformed in their legal aspects to the 'villas' of other provinces.

Whatever room there may be for survival of native customs or institutions, we have no evidence that they survived, within the Romanized area, either in great amount or in any form which contrasted with the general Roman character of the country.
[Footnote 1: The term 'villa' is generally used to denote Romano-British country-houses and farms, irrespective of their legal classification.
The use is so firmly established, both in England and abroad, that it would be idle to attempt to alter it.

But for clearness I have thought it better in this paper to employ the term 'villa' only where I refer to the definite 'villa' system.] [Footnote 2: Cod.Theod.xi.

7.2.] [Footnote 3: For instance, Mr.Seebohm (_English Village Community_, pp.
254 foll.) connects the suffix 'ham' with the Roman 'villa' and apparently argues that the occurrence of the suffix indicates in general the former existence of a 'villa'.