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THE LAW OF" THE WE8TGOTH8.
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6.
Will Bomeone take land aa pawn, then a survey shall be arranged and
measure out lor him, land for pawn, as law says. If he redeems within three
years, then the land is not lost by foreclosure. Does it stand three years or
more than three, then it is lost.
1. Gives someone another kind of pawn, gold or silver, then he shall set
and hold for him a seventh-night-thing, that he may redeem his pawn, and
demand payment of debt. He shall pay the debt, and then take his oath, that
the debt is not larger, than is now sworn. Will he not pay the debt, nor take
the oath, then shall the other keep the pawn, and bring it to the thing, let it
adjudge him right to sell it.
7.
Someone buys a farm, are separate fields bought therefrom, is there a
dispute, then shall the owner have no right to prove except for one field. Then
shall the owner of the farm advance with two twelfths, and ask the gods so
to help him and his witnesses, that "this part was never sold from this farm
with confirmation and survey and not disposed of, as the law says."
1. One says, that he has inherited a field part and another, that he has
bought it, that one has right to prove, who says, that he has inherited.
2. One claims to own an outlying part and another the estate itself, that
one has right to prove, who owns the estate. Outlying land 1) and fences
shall all belong to the farm according to law.
3. Someone has a home in the village and a one ore field and a six load
meadow, 2) then he has a right to outlying land and to forest. Owns he less
than one eighth part of an eighth, then he has a right to leaf and grass and
brush. Does one not own one eighth part of an eighth, then one cannot
adjudge to him outlying land and forest.
8.
A village shall be built in eighths. Four roads shall lead out from a village.
Gates and fences and bridges shall be divided among the eighths.
9.
If the churchyard and dwellingyard meet, then shall the parish fence and
not the lot. If a field and a lot meet, he shall fence, who owns the lot. Fences
1) Utskipt: Outlying land. Land that was separated from the estate by
other land, and hence lying apart therefrom.
2) öræs land: A field worth one öre; sæx lassa æng: a meadow that
brings six loads of hay.
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