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 then received the status of a sow. A hare also had no legal worth fixed on it, because during one month it is male and the other female. The worth of a stallion is a horse which can cover, with a mare before him and another behind him. The worth of a herd boar is another boar which can procreate, with a sow before him and another behind him. The worth of a bull of a trevgordd is another bull which can leap, with a cow before him and another behind him. A wolf and a fox and various others which do nothing save mischief and on which no legal worth is fixed ; it is free to all to slay them. The worth of every animal whose flesh is eaten, except the swine, is two-thirds on the life and one-third on the body. The teithi of a man are that he should be able to have connexion with a woman, and that he should be sound in all his limbs. The teithi of a woman are that the sign of puberty should have appeared in her, and that she should be sound in all her limbs. The teithi of violence are a cry, a horn, and a complaint.

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