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 shall share, and from eldest to eldest they are to choose. No person is to demand re-sharing except him who has not obtained a choice, as there is no gwarthal with choice.

f a person neglects three summons on the part of the king respecting land, unless a great necessity hinders him, the land is given to him who shall claim it. If he comes at the second summons or at the third, let him answer respecting the land if it is right for him ; and let him pay three kine camlwrw to the king for neglecting summons. Whoever shall pay an investiture fee for land, is not by right to pay ebediw. Whoever shall hold land during three men's lives in the same gwlad as the recognized possessors, during the lives of father, grandfather and great-grandfather without claim and without surclaim, without burning of house, without breaking of plough ; that land is never to be answered for by them, inasmuch as law has shut between them. Whoever shall claim land by kin and descent, it is necessary that the elders of the gwlad should swear as to the kin before hearing the claim. If a person receives a share of land from his kindred after a long state of exile, let him give six score pence as fee for custody if they concede to him