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THE LAW OF THE WE8TGOTH8.
FORMÆMIS BOLKÆR
The code on unlawful acts, l)
All outfences 2) and gates should be closed and in good condition on
Ascen-sionday. Lies the gate broken, that is a case of six öre. One öre for an only
opening on the outfence, eight örtugs for a homefence. 8)
2.
A horse rolls, a hog roots on a sprouted field, pay back such seed as has
been sown one bushel for each third weltering or rooting.
3.
A grass-sitter 4) dwells on someone’s estate, shares ownership neither in
fences nor gates, neither meadow nor field, then he has no legal right to
hare anything quick outside the fences, without making himself liable to a
fine of three sixteen-örtugs.
4.
A tethered animal cannot be kept in a field or meadow without
permission, without the owner becoming liable to a fine of eight örtugs to all
neighbors.
1. The priest has a legal right to have a horse on the common, because
he shall ride out into the parish, if there are sudden summons to give the
freeholder the Lord’s supper or the extreme unction.
5.
A man buys cattle from an infected village, drives home without
permission of the neighbors, then shall whosoever finds the animal cut it down.
6.
Fodder cattle, and hired cattle, sequestered cattle and pawn cattle, these
shall be guarded against all injury by hunger and halter, mountain and
bridge, water and mire, wolf and thief. These are all injuries because of
carelessness. For all of them shall fine be paid with twelfthoath.
1) It is evident, that this and the foregoing codes belong together, and they
have originally, no doubt, had the same heading. The separation of the latter
from the former was perhaps caused by the circumstance, that its first
paragraph begins with a capital letter.
2) Utgarpær: Fences about land lying separate from the estate itself.
8) Bolgarpær: Fences about the house and yard of an estate.
4) Græssæti: Grass-sitter. A person living gratis at somebody’s home or
farm.
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