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 fully. If a debtor gives the worth of a pound in pledge for a penny and it lapse, no compensation is given him.

very cause according to its contract ; it is not a contract without contract men ; a contract is to be abjured like suretyship. No one is to make a contract for another without his permission ; neither a father for his son ; nor a son for his father ; because a contract does not last except during the life of him who makes it. Although a contract be made in opposition to law, it must be observed. A contract annuls a custom. Stronger is contract than justice. If a person promise chattels to another in the presence of witnesses and be afterwards desirous of denying it, it is not possible, unless the other's witnesses fail him. If he promise with no one in the place, let him swear on his own oath if he will.

even pounds is the gobr of a king's daughter, and it is paid to the mother ; and the husband pays her cowyll, for land is paid to her. Twenty-four pounds is her agweddi. If the daughter of a breyr goes away with a man clandestinely without consent of kindred, her agweddi, when deserted, will be six steers with their horns and their ears of equal length.