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THE LAW OF THE WE8TGOTH8.
erty, and they shall defend it by two twelfths and two witnesses. Ask the gods
so to help them and their witnesses, that, "this land about which we disagree
is the common property of all the neighbors and not thine only."
1. There is a dispute between a separate farm and a village about
common ground, then the village has a right to prove and not the farm. Half a
dozen freeholders shall be found in a village, if it shall be able to prove itaelf a
full village. Two freeholders shall testify in each twelfth. Is it a mound
village 1) built in heathen times, then shall two freeholders of those who did not
testify, each go before their twelfth, ask the gods so to help them and their
witnesses, that "their village has been a full village in heathen times and
christian times, and therefore it has equal right to prove it with the other vil"
låge according to law." If a man owns a whole village, is there a church and
half a twelfth of men living there, then he may prove it to be a full village.
16.
If there is disagreement concerning landboundaries between villages, then
they shall inspect the boundary between them, each village go to its mark, so
considered. One shall not claim the boundary to be within the fence of
another, where the fence has been standing three winters or more. The village
has a right to that. They shall go together and let evidence be brought forth
at the place, which it does claim. Is the one richer with reference to witnesses,
then he shall have right to prove. Have they both just as many witnesses,
then shall the county arrange for a commission from the thing. Does the
commission agree, then judgment shall be passed in favor of that village. Do they
not agree, then a commission shall be appointed by the state and decide
between them.
1. If the state and county disagree, the state shall have right to prove,
and these counties shall have right to prove, which do not get their provisions
from the land, about which there is dispute. It shall be defended by two
twelfths of jurymen.
2. If there is a disagreement between the county and the village, the
county has the right to prove.
17.
One village wishes to fence in its land from the land of another village,
they shall erect a fence, who wish to fence in, and seek thereupon to be freed
from half of the fence, perfect and not imperfect.
1) Höghæbyr: Mound village. The mounds were burial places in heathen
times, and a village with such a mound in or near it was called mound village.
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