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 of their right. If a man take a woman clandestinely and keep her with him until the end of the seventh day without doing right to her, he is not to do right to her until the end of a day and a year ; then however she is to have full right. A woman of full age who goes with a man clandestinely, and is taken by the man to bush or brake or house, and is, after connexion, deserted ; upon complaint made by her to her kindred and in the courts, she is to take for her chastity a bull of three winters, having its tail shaven and greased with tallow and then thrust through the covering hurdle ; and then let the woman go into the house, and place her foot on the threshold, and take the tail in her hands, and let a man come on each side of the bull and a goad in the hand of each to stimulate the bull ; and if she can hold the bull, let her take it for her wyneb-werth and her chastity; and if she cannot, let her take what tallow may adhere to her hands. A woman who surrenders herself to a man in bush and brake, and is abandoned by the man who connects himself with another woman, and she come to complain to her kindred and to the courts ; if the man deny, let him swear on a bell without a clapper ; if he make compensa-