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shall do sarhad to any one of those abbots, let him pay seven pounds to him, and let a female of his kindred be a washerwoman as a reproach to the kindred and as a memorial of the punishment (dial).

[1]Three calamitous losses of a kindred:— one is, that there should be a doubted son without being affiliated and without being denied ; and that such should kill a man of another kindred without owing him anything ; the whole of that galanas is to be paid ; and then he is to be denied lest he should commit a second crime. The second is, paying the whole of a galanas excepting a penny and a halfpenny ; and should there be a failure of that, and a person of the kindred be killed on account of that failure, there is to be no claim for him. The third is, when an innocent person is slandered concerning a corpse and is proceeded against, if he does not deny by a period lawfully fixed, and if a person be killed because of him, there is to be no expiation for it.

[2]Three legal periods to avenge a dead body :— between two kindreds who do not originate from the same gwlad, commencing a claim on the first day of the week following that wherein the

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