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acquires for the season, and so forty-eight pence is its value until August. Thence until the calends of December, it is fifty pence in value. Until the calends of February, it is fifty-two pence in value. On the following morning, two pence for the season and four legal pence for the second calf bearing, and so it is three score pence in value. The horn of a cow or ox, and the eye and the ear and the tail, are each of them four legal pence in value. [1]The teat of a cow is four legal pence in value. [2]If a person sells a cow to another, and there should be a teat of the cow unproductive, and the person who buys it should not perceive it, let the person who shall sell it pay four legal pence every year to the person who shall buy it whilst the cow shall be in his possession. If that person sells it to another, let the first be free, because the last who shall sell it creates a similar arrangement. [3]By three ways the teithi of a cow are paid : by thirty of silver, or by a fair dry cow, or by meal. The measure of a cow's milk vessel is [as follows]. Seven inches it is to be in height when measured diagonally from the off rabbet to the near rim, and three inches in the breadth of its mouth,

  1. V 30 b 21
  2. V 30 b 22
  3. V 31 a 4