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THE LAW OF THE WE8TGOTH8.
3. If someone is killed on the land of all Goths *), is the murderer not
known, bring complaint against the nearest village. Will it not admit the
accusation of murder, bring complaint against the next village. It shall
defend itself with two twelfths. Likewise shall the third defend itself. If they
have all been acquitted, then the county, that is nearest, and which gets its
provisions 5) in that forest, shall pay the fine. It shall pay a fine of nine
marks or bring forth the murderer.
15.
Someone falls under a millwheel, is killed thereby, pay a fine of three
marks, he who owns the mill.
1. Falls someone into a well or a ditch, or from a fishing dam, is he killed
thereby, the owner shall pay three marks for him.
2. Runs someone onto a bear spear or elk spear, is killed thereby, the
owner shall pay three marks for him.
3. Someone raises up a tree and it falls down, is someone killed thereby,
pay a fine of three marks, he who raised it.
4. Gores a bull,
cuts a boar,
bites a dog,
death results,
pay a fine of three marks.
&ÆTTA ÆR OF SARÆMALUM BOLKÆR
This is the code on wound cases.
1.
If someone is wounded by another, then the wound shall be announced at
the first thing — (Knows not whether one pleads the cause of one living or
dead) — and on the second thing, but on the third bring complaint of murder,
or the case is lost. Then he shall show the wound, then the thingmen shall
testify to, that it is a full sore. Needs he for it salve and bandage, linen and
4) Aldra Göta mark: All Goths’ land. A large forest in Västergötland,
which was common property.
6) That is lumber, feed, hay, pasture and the like.
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