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 in childbirth, let him who caused her pregnancy, pay her legal worth to her lord. Every person receives augmentation in his galanas and in his sarhad except an alltud; the scores [of silver] which are paid together with the cattle are the augmentations. The sarhad of a bondwoman is twelve pence in value ; and if she be a serving [woman] who works neither at the spade nor the quern, twenty-four pence is her sarhad. Whoever waylays a person, pays double the galanas of the person who is murdered; and twelve kine dirwy doubled, he pays to the king. Whoever shall deny waylaying or murder or open attack, let him give the oaths of fifty men without bondman and without alltud. An open attack cannot be on the part of less than nine men.

t is for a court to meer; and after a court, a llan; and after a llan, status ; and after status, prior conservancy on waste. A house, a kiln and a barn, constitute prior conservancy. If contention arise between two trevs of equal status concerning boundary, it is for the king's gwrdas to determine it, if they know ; and if they are doubtful, it is for the proprietors of the land to swear, every one as to his boundary; and afterwards let them share the object of their