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clothes ; and if there is anything which is worth a pound, a king has it. [1]A third of galanas is to fall on the owner of the weapon with which the person was slain. [2]Chattels which are taken from [a time of] war to [that of] peace are to be divided between the one who took them and the one who owned them previously. [3]If two persons shall be walking through a wood, and the one in front lets a bough strike the one in the rear so that he loses an eye, he is to pay the worth of the eye to the other.

[4]The time between court and llan is

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[5]nine days to give an answer, and nine to give surety, and nine to render justice, in respect to the claim demanded. Nine days are allowed to a lord to recollect his oath. To a priest is allowed until he gets the first opportunity to sing mass. [6]In every suit there ought to be a summons and a claim and an answer and judgment and peace. [7]Every builder upon open land is to have three trees from the person who shall own the wood, whether the woodsman (coetwr[8]) be willing or unwilling : a roof-tree and two roof-forks. [9]Whoever shall be a gorvodog for another, if he is

  1. W 90 b 20
  2. W 91 a 1
  3. W 91 a 3
  4. W 91 a 1
  5. V 38 a 1
  6. V 38 a 5
  7. V 38 a 7
  8. Originally coet6r or coetỼr
  9. V 38 a 10