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82 THE LAW OF THE WESTGOTHS.
2. The one advising a murderer shall be called to thing for that crime,
which you claim he is guilty of, that he advised with death advice. He shall
bring evidence in his case at oneday, with a whole twelfth on the father’s side
and a half on the mother’s side. Does he fail in his evidence in both, then he
shall be fined four and a half marks. Fails he in the twelfth, pay a fine of three
marks. Does he fail in the half twelfth, pay a fine of twelve ore.
3. Now the one who held the victim of murder shall pay a fine of four
and a half marks. The king has no part in that, neither in fines for murder
by advice, nor in fines for murder by holding. In a case of being present at a
murder the plaintiff has a right to one örtug and five öre. The king and the
county have the same right.
4. The king shall exact fines for crime against personal liberty, and
pawni) shall not be taken.
4.
A slave kills a free man. He shall not be called his murderer. The
freeholder — owner of the slave, — shall pay heirfine and tribefine, not lose his
liberty, unless he refuses to pay fine.
5.
Kills someone a Swedish man, or one from Småland, a man from within
the kingdom, but not from Västergötland, pay therefore a fine of thirteen
marks and eight örtugs and no tribe-fine.
1. Nine marks the king shall have in a case of murder and likewise the
county.
2. A woman kills a man, then complaint shall be brought against the
nearest male relative. He shall be responsible for the fine or lose his liberty.
3. Kills someone a Dane or a Norwegian, pay a fine of nine marks.
4. Kills someone a foreigner, he shall not lose his right to liberty either
in his land or in his tribe.
5. Kills someone a foreign priest, pay as large a fine as for a citizen. The
priest shall have the same rights as a freeholder.
6. A southerner 2) or an Englishman is killed, then the fine shall be four
marks to the plaintiff and two marks to the king. Each freeholder gave the
other his right in that case. 3)
X) Næma til: To take pawn or pledge. A certain sum of money or amount
of property taken as security .until certain acts were performed or completed. It
was a custom quite general in former times, and is even yet allowed in Sweden.
2) Supær mapær: Southerner. A man from southern Europe.
8) Each gave the other his right, i e. the freeholders gave up their rights of
fines to the county.
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