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swear, with the six of their nearest of kin do they swear ; for every one of them shall be a debtor. [1]A person should take a surety on all chattels saving the chattels which his lord shall give him. [2]Whoever shall be a surety for a person, if the debtor does not pay on the day fixed, the surety shall then have a period of fifteen days; and if then the debtor does not pay, the surety shall then have a period of ten days ; and if then the debtor does not pay, then the surety shall have a period of five days ; and if the debtor pays not then, let the surety pay ; and these are the periods of a surety as to living chattels. If he be a surety as to inanimate chattels, a period of fifteen days has the surety then ; and if then the debtor pays not, the surety has then a period of thirty days ; and if then the debtor pays not, the surety then has a period of fifty days ; and if then the debtor pays not, let the surety pay himself ; and when the surety shall meet the debtor, let him strip him of all his clothing except the garment nearest to him ; and thus let him always do until he gets back the full payment from him. [3]If a person's surety dies before the debtor pays his suretyship for him, let the plaintiff come with the six persons next [of kin] to himself over the surety's

  1. V 35 b 11
  2. V 35 b 13
  3. V 36 a 4