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 clothes ; and if there is anything which is worth a pound, a king has it. A third of galanas is to fall on the owner of the weapon with which the person was slain. Chattels which are taken from [a time of] war to [that of] peace are to be divided between the one who took them and the one who owned them previously. If two persons shall be walking through a wood, and the one in front lets a bough strike the one in the rear so that he loses an eye, he is to pay the worth of the eye to the other.

he time between court and llan is

nine days to give an answer, and nine to give surety, and nine to render justice, in respect to the claim demanded. Nine days are allowed to a lord to recollect his oath. To a priest is allowed until he gets the first opportunity to sing mass. In every suit there ought to be a summons and a claim and an answer and judgment and peace. Every builder upon open land is to have three trees from the person who shall own the wood, whether the woodsman (coetwr ) be willing or unwilling : a roof-tree and two roof-forks. Whoever shall be a gorvodog for another, if he is