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THE LAW OF THE WE8TGOTH8.
2. Someone lies with a woman and betroths her afterwards, promises a
friendgift, then the intercourse is lawful.
3. Someone lies with a freed slavewoman, raised at home, pay a fine of
twelve öre, for a slavewoman six öre, for a freeborn woman six marks. He,
who has a child with a slavewoman, shall support her, until she is able to
pull the mill and milk the cow.
She dies in childbirth, pay a fine of three marks.
4. Secret intercourse with an unmarried woman, whether free or slave,
shall be defended by twelfth-oath.
7.
Relationship exists between two persons united in marriage, then it shall
be investigated at the thing, and permission be asked from the bishop to
swear with twelfth-oath. Ask the gods so to help oneself and witnesses, that
"our relationship is such, as now I have told. Therefor I cannot live with her
according to God’s law." A freeholder brings complaint as to himself of
having for a wife a relative, which he cannot have according to Qod’s law, then
prove that with two twelfths. Does he fail, then he shall live with her.
8.
A man lies with his daughter, such a crime shall be punished by sending
the offender to Rome. Father and son have the same woman, have brothers
the same woman, have two cousins on the father’s side the same woman,
have two cousins on the mother’s side the same woman, have mother and
daughter the same man, have two sisters the same man, or brother’s
daughters the same man, that is incest.
1. A woman murders her child, a son his father, or father son, or brother
brother, or cousin on the father’s side his cousin, or cousin on the mother’s
side his cousin, or father his father or his mother’s father, or his son’s son, or
his daughter’s son, or brother’s son or sister’s son, all such crimes shall be
punished by sending the offender to Rome out of the country, with a letter to
the pope. They shall get a letter from the pope, and bring to the bishop and
let him see, what mercy they received. The bishop shall give them a letter for
their tithe.
2. For all lecherous deeds the bishop shall have three marks. Those, who
offend against church penance, shall pay three marks fine to the bishop.
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