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 violating protection of way towards an irremediable beggar ; and for sarhad to a king.

hree thrusts not to be redressed: one is, a person demanding right from his enemy on account of his kinsman in three pleadings and not obtaining right ; and afterwards meeting with his enemy, and thrusting him with a spear so that he dies ; that thrust is not to be redressed. The second is, jealousy caused to a married woman by another woman concerning her husband, and the two women meeting together, and the married woman making a thrust with her hands at the other woman so that she die ; there is to be no reparation to her. The third is, giving a mature maiden to a man with surety as to her virginity, and the man making a genital thrust at her and having connexion with her once and finding her a woman ; he is to call the marriage guests to him, candles are to be lighted and her shift cut before her as high as her pubes and behind her as high as her buttocks, and she is to be sent off with that thrust without any reparation to her ; and that is the law for a deceitful maid. Three persons who are not to be sold legally : an acknowledged thief for having the worth of four legal pence in his hand, and a waylayer, and a traitor