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 hree dirwys of a king are : the dirwy for violence, and the dirwy for theft, and the dirwy for acknowledged fighting. The expiation dirwy for violence is a silver rod and a gold cup with a gold cover of the kind mentioned in expiation of a king's sarhad. The expiation dirwy for acknowledged fighting is twelve kine. The expiation dirwy for theft is, if a person be charged with theft and he personally deny it satisfactorily, and a rhaith be placed on him and it fail, he is an acknowledged thief since his rhaith has failed. Innocent by his own account, nothing being taken in his possession or found in his hand, twelve kine dirwy upon him. Three indispensables of a king are : his household priest, and his court judge, and his household. Three things which a king shares with no one : his gold treasure, and his hawk, and his thief.

hree fours there are : four causes of perverting judgment ; from fear of a powerful man, and heart hatred [of enemies], and love of friends, and lust of chattels. The second four are : four shields which interpose between a person and a rhaith of a gwlad in a prosecution for theft ; one is, legally harbouring a guest, that is, keeping him from the time of nightfall until the