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THE LAW OF THE WE8TGOTH8.
shall be judged without right for heir and plaintiff, and then they shall take
her life.
9.
A man is wounded, lies sick a long time, gets worse and dies therefrom,
does the heir bring complaint against the one who wounded and calls him the
murderer, then he shall defend himself with a closed jury, if he, who is
wounded, dies within a year. Lives he longer, pay no fine. Does he fail in his
evidence in the case, pay fine for the man.
ORBOTÆMAL.
Ou felony or capital crime.
A man kills another in church that is felony 1), capital crime.
1. A man kills another at the thing, that is felony.
2. A man breaks granted peace and set agreement, seeks revenge on a
thief or retaliates for punishment administered by the thing, by assault or
murder or burning, that is felony. He has forfeited land and personal
property.
3. A man cuts both hands off another, or murders a sleeping man, that is
felony.
4. That is felony to carry shield over native shore. 2) Ravages one his
own country, he has forfeited land, citizenship and personal property. 8)
5. A man ties another to a tree in the forest, that is felony.
6. A man shoots through the skylight and kills someone, kills one while
bathing, or in a bathhouse, or when attending to the needs of nature, stings
out both eyes on someone, cuts the tongue out of somebody’s head, cuts both
feet off someone, or kills a woman, that is all felony. A woman has always
freedom to attend meetings or mass. Never are so great strifes among men,
that this is not allowed.
1) Nipingsværk: The deed of a villain, felony, a crime usually punished by
exile or death.
2) £>angbrækka: Seaweed hill, or native shore. Schlyter claims that it
can mean nothing but forest. Otman and others take it simply to be a poetic
expression for native shore.
8) Lösir örær: Money or other personal property.
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