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of the seven last degrees and the members of all the degrees. The heirs of the murderer or the murdered are not to pay anything nor receive in respect to galanas, because the share of the person who pays more than any other stands for him and his heirs; and their care rests on him. The care of the heir of the murdered rests on his parents and his co-heirs because they receive a third part of the galanas. And if there be anyone of the kindred of the murderer or the murdered, who is an ecclesiastic in holy orders or a religious or leprous or dumb or an idiot, he neither pays nor receives any of the galanas. They are not to take vengeance for a person murdered, nor is vengeance to be taken on them ; and it is impossible to compel such by any law to pay anything, nor are they to receive. [1]

OF the nine accessaries of fire, the first is counselling to burn the house. The second is, agreeing concerning the burning. The third is, going to burn. The fourth is, carrying the cresset. The fifth is, striking the fire. The sixth is, procuring tinder. The seventh is, blowing the fire until it shall kindle. The eighth is, setting fire to the thing with which to burn. The ninth is, watching the

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