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THE LAW OF THE WE8TGOTH8.
gets his slave back. He gets them back, pay for their crimes according to law,
if there are eyewitnesses, or the stolen goods is found in their hands. Is that
not found, defend himself with denial according to law.
1. One man lends another his slave, answer he for his deed, who has
received the loan, while he is in his care.
12.
He who borrows from a freeholder a horse or an ox or a cow, he shall be
responsible for all carelessness; that is thief, water, mire, halter and the like,
1. An animal perishes through unforseen dangers; that is bear, or colic,
then one shall not be responsible. For destruction by wolf one shall be
responsible as for carelessness, if one does not obtain remnants of the animal.
It is six ore for a horse, half a mark for an ox and likewise for a cow and mare.
Obtains one remnants, pay not for wolf.
13.
Someone leaves his property with another for safekeeping, then he, who
receives it, may not lose it, either by stealing or robbery, unless that free"
holder’s goods and property, who took charge are also taken. Bring forth
what he will and swear tvith twelfth-oath, that he did not get any more of
his property to keep, than what he now has produced.
JORMR BOLKÆR.
Land code.
1.
There are five ways of obtaining land : one is inheritance, another is son’s
dowry, third is daughter’s dowry, fourth is buying and fifth is gift.i)
2.
A buyer shall take two men from him, who sells the land, to be responsible
for the surveying 2) and he two from the other to be responsible for payment
1) Skötning: Gift. See church code note 5.
2) Umfærd: Survey. This was carried out as follows: The buyer, seller
and some witnesses, started from a certain point to walk about the land to
be sold, back to the starting point, thus determining its boundaries. Schlyter
claims, that it had a religious as well as a legal significance.
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