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 unable to bring him to law, let the gorvodog be liable by law for the person on whose behalf he became such. The time for a gorvodog to request the return of his gorvodogship : one day and a year. A thief who shall be placed upon sureties is not to be destroyed. No one is to make satisfaction nor answer for an act of his bondman saving for theft. There is to be no justice and law without these four requisites: a common lord, and a presiding (kadeirawc ) judge, and two parties present. Whoever shall break co-tillage willingly engaged in, let him pay three kine camlwrw to the king ; and all his tilth to the co-tiller. The meadow-lands are to be fenced off (aſforeſtir) on account of the swine because they spoil the land. Whoever shall find them on his meadow-land or in his corn before it is ripe, let him receive four legal pence from the owner of the swine. If they spoil ripe corn, let their damage be paid for.

n six ways does a person lose his chattels: by loss and surreption and theft ; by loan and hire and deposit. In the first three cases, he is to discover and to swear to them. In the three others, he is not to do so unless they are restored as they were given. A blow received unintentionally is not sarhad. It is right