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THE LAW OF THE WESTGOTHS.
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Then takes the next group its mother’s share and puts it back for division,
then takes away its third, whether it be the woman or the youngest group,
then shall that — ». e. the dowry, be laid back to the house, then take away
their third. Then shall a morning gift be paid to all. Is the property not
sufficient for this, then one shall lack just as much as the other.
6.
A widow marries a second husband, she marries a third, dies the wife, has
children in this marriage. Then shall the youngest group inherit all personal
property, and that land, which is bought on the farm.
1. A widow marries, gets no children, then she marries all her former
children to inheritance.
7.
A freeholder gives his daughter in marriage vi;ith marriage gifti) and
agreement, then if they disagree, he shall prove with two twelfths, that she
was so married as the law says, and therefore her children are legal heirs.
8.
A man leaves his lawful wife and goes into the bed of another woman»
begets children with her, they are bastards, are not lawfully the father’s heirs.
1. The relatives of a freeholder, who has died, accuse his lawful wife of,
that he was not the father of this child. That one shall own the child, who
every night sleeps with her, and is married to her according to law.
2. A woman has one illegitimate son and one legitimate, they shall both
inherit her, the one as the other.
3. A man lies with a woman, begets child with her, that is a legitimate
child, if he afterwards by marriage gift and agreement gets her, begets also a
child, that is a legitimate child. If he rejects that woman, then he cannot live
with her according to God’s law. If he afterwards visits her by stealth and
begets a child with her, that is an illegitimate child, inherits the mother, and
not the father.
9.
A man enters a cloister, he shall divide his property with his heirs. He
takes one part and his heirs another. As many as the heirs are, into so many
parts shall it be divided. Enters he the cloister with his part, dies he in the
cloister, the cloister is his heir.
1. If he wishes to leave the cloister within a year, he has the right to do
1) Mundr: Marriage gift. In this connection the same as hemfylgd.
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