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6t> T HB LAW OF THE WE8TGOTH8.
himself adjudged right to sell to them, who offer him the largest price. The
same law shall obtain for a woman as for a man in these cases.
1. One shall not go to lire in another’s house, unless he so wishes, be it a
man or woman, who lives at the home, j)
2. No one can buy land from his wife according to law, that is called
wallbuying. 2) The freeholder may buy land to land if he wishes.
3. He, who sells land, shall himself be present at the sale, whether it be a
woman, a child or a man. A minor shall announce a sale at the thing.
4. A man buys real estate with personal property, and wishes to sell
again for personal property, he shall legally offer the real estate to the one
he bought from. He shall pay such a price for the land as is then offered. Will
he trade for land, then he need not legally offer it to the former owner.
4.
A wife or a husband sell their land, add not the price to the common
property, buys for himself other land, that belongs to the one, who owned the
price.
1. A man buys with his land, gives to boot from their common property,
as soon as the property shall be divided, then shall so many öre be placed for
division as were given to boot.
2. If there is a disagreement between two married people, land is bought
with personal property, one says the other does not own any of it, that one
has right to prove 3), who wishes to prove ownership for both of them.
3. If land is secured and surveyed after two persons come together in
marriage, then it belongs to both.
5.
A bishop has right to prove before the king, the king’s bailiff*) before the
bishop and a freeholder before them all. Freeholders own one village, the
king’s bailiff another, if they disagree, then the freeholders and not the king’s
bailiff have the right to prove and settle the disagreement between their
villages. The freeholders live in the same village with the king’s bailiff, they
shall not lose their right to prove for that reason.
1) I. e. no one shall be compelled against his or her will to leave one’s own
home and property to some one in order to receive support from him in the
future.
2) I. e. a sale within the walls of the same house.
s) Ægha vitu: Have a right to prove, defend etc. The word vitu has the
following meanings: 1) proof, 2) testimony, 3) power to prove, 4) right to
prove oneself free by oath, 5) right o( decision, 6) right to keep and use, 7) to
nave a right to a certain thing.
4) Lændær mapær: bailiff.
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