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 men without bondman and without alltud. From three causes a woman does not lose her agweddi although she may leave her husband : on account of leprosy, and bad breath, and default of connexion. Three things which are not to be taken from a woman although she be abandoned for her fault : her cowyll; and her argyvreu; and her wyneb-werth when her husband has connexion with another woman. If a maiden does not exercise her will as to her cowyll before she rises in the morning from beside her husband, it is to be between them. Three times a woman has her wyneb-werth from her husband when he shall have connexion with another woman ; and if she endure beyond that, she receives nothing. If a mature maid be given to a man and if he says that she was not a maid, let the maid swear with four persons that she was not a woman. The persons are to be, herself and her father and her mother and her brother and her sister. Three oaths a woman when scandalized makes to a husband : first, the oaths of seven women; and on the second scandal, the oaths of fourteen women; and on the third scandal, the oaths of fifty women; and if he endures beyond that, he receives nothing. Let no one give a woman