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 hoever shall commit treason against a lord or waylay, is to forfeit his father's trev ; and if he be caught, he is liable to be executed. If he be not caught and he will to be reconciled to his lord and kindred, a twofold payment of dirwy and galanas is to be levied on him ; and if he repair to the court of the pope and return with the pope's letter with him and show that he is absolved by the pope, he has his father's trev. A third cause for which a person forfeits his father's trev is the abandoning of his land without leave, and his not being able to bear the burden and the service attached thereto.

No person is to obtain the land of his co-heir, as of his brother or of his cousin or of his second cousin, by claiming it through the one of them who shall die without an heir of his body ; but by claiming it through one of his parents who shall have been in possession of that land till his death, whether a father or grandfather or great-grandfather; and so he gets the land if he be next of kin to the deceased. After brothers shall have shared their father's trev between them, if one of them die without an heir of his body or a co-heir to a third cousin, the king is to be heir of that land. There