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72
THE LAW OF THE WE8TGOTH8.
HURU MIULNU SKAL GÆRA
How a mill shall be built.
A man wishes to build a mill, he shall not build in such a way, that he
destroys another’s property, either field or meadow or men’s roads, or the
neighbor’s walks, or their mill, which was built before, or fishing works.
1. A fishing place shall not be built in such a way as to destroy an older
one. It is not allowed to fish in another’s dam, if he does not permit, who
owns it, nor in another man’s ditch.
2. A mill lies vacant three winters or more than three winters, is the
timber rotten, then has anyone, who may wish a right to take it. Does the
one, who owned the mill, say that the woodwork is not rotten, testify with
two twelfths, that the floodgates stood, and the posts, and the threshold lay
there and also the waterchannel support. A man always owns a mill, while
the woodwork is not altogether rotten. That man owns the millplace, who
first builds thereon, whether it be on the land belonging to the state or to the
neighbors.
3. Persons dispute about the millplace, each says, that he owns it, an
inspection shall be made. The law shall be on his side, who has the largest
number of witnesses. Have both just as many witnesses, then the state shall
appoint a commission of inspection and decide between them, l)
4. Someone builds a mill in water belonging to several owners, owns
another man land on the opposite side, then shall he let flow one third of
the water, but two parts he may dam up, not over to the land on the other
side unless he gets, by legal contract and survey, a place for his dam there.
3. If the neighbors fence in the common in front of the mill doors, then he
shall demand a road for himself. 2)
They shall lay out such a road for him. If someone does not, they divide
the land according to law, another gets on his lot the land in front of the
mill-doors, then his mill is useless,
6. Someone builds a mill on his land, lies the village common opposite on
the other side, does another village own it, then he shall buy a place for his
dam from them, who own the land in that village.
7. Water shall not be turned out of its former course to another man’s
injury in any other way, than it has formerly flowed.
8. Land can not be received as a gift.
1) The manner of procedure in cases of this kind is fully described in I. B.
2) Portions of the text have evidently been left out in this paragraph.
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