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 dead was murdered; if there comes no answer by the end of a fortnight, the law makes vengeance free. The second is, if the two kindreds are in the same cantrev, commencing a claim on the third day after the dead is slain ; if there comes no answer by the end of the ninth day, the law makes vengeance free. The third is, if the two kindreds are in the same cymwd, commencing a claim on the third day after the dead is murdered ; if there comes no answer by the end of the sixth day, the law makes vengeance free.

hree nets of a king are : his household, for which net there is no reparation but the mercy of the king. The second is his stud ; for every horse caught on it, the king receives four legal pence. The third is the cattle of his maer-house; for every steer found on them, the king receives four legal pence. Three nets of a breyr are : his stud, and the cattle of his maer-house, and his swine, because, if an animal is found among them, the breyr receives for every animal four legal pence. Three nets of a taeog are : his cattle, and his swine, and his homestead (hentref) ; for each animal caught therein he receives four curt pence from the calends of May until September shall have gone.