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 at liberty. If any person's corn bordering on a trevgordd be damaged, and there shall not be one animal caught upon it, let him take the relic and come to the trev; and if they swear an oath of ignorance, let them pay for the corn according to the number of cattle (yrif eidon llwdyn ); and that law is called, paying after a polluted oath. If a person catch animals, which are strange to one another, in his corn or in his hay, and they fight in the pound and one animal kill the other, the owner of the animal is to pay for the beast killed and the taker is free.

hoever shall deny a surety, let him give his oath together with the six persons nearest to himself in worth ; four on the side of his father, and two on the side of his mother, and himself seventh. Whoever shall deny suretyship, let him give his oath together with six in the like manner; and if his kindred be not in the same gwlad as himself, let him give his oath by himself over seven consecrated altars in the same cantrev as himself; for thus is briduw denied. In three ways is a surety exonerated ; by the debtor paying for him. The second is, by time being granted by the plaintiff to the debtor in the absence of the surety. The third is, by a distress being made