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 morning, and placing the hand over him three times that night, that is, swearing on his part and the people of the house with him. The second is birth and rearing ; the owner swearing with two men of the same status as himself, as to seeing the birth of the animal and its rearing in his possession without its going three nights from him. The third is a warrant. The fourth is custody before loss, that is, a person swearing with two men of the same status as himself, that before the other lost his chattels, those chattels were in his possession. There is no warrant except unto the third hand. The third hand establishes custody before loss, and that defends a person from [a charge of] theft. The third four are : four persons to whom there is no protection against the king either in court or in llan. One is a person who violates the protection of the king in one of the three principal festivals. The second is a person who shall be pledged willingly to the king. The third is his supperer, a person who ought to provide for him and who leaves him that night without food. The fourth is his bondman.

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