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 a share. The land which the king shall give to a person by right, let not him who shall rule after him retake. Whoever shall allow the transfer of his father's trev in his presence to another without let and without hindrance, shall not have it whilst he lives. Whoever shall claim land ; if he traces his kin along the distaff more than three times, his claim shall be lost. If a church is made on a taeogtrev with the king's leave and it be a burying-place, and there be a priest saying mass in it, that trev shall be free from that time forward, If a taeog takes the son of a breyr to foster with his lord's permission, such a son is to participate in the taeog's father's trev like one of his own sons. Every joint land is to be held with oath and with chattels ; and he who does not so hold it, let him lose his share. When however the land shall have been shared, no one ought to pay for another. Each however ought to hold with their oath, one for another, of the brothers, cousins and second cousins ; and the land which any one of them shall lose through lack of oath on the part of the rest, let them make good to him. Beyond second cousins no one is to preserve the share of another either with his oath or with his chattels.