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10. [Be reaflac.]

Gif hwa binnan þam gemærum ures rices reaflác ⁊ niednæme dó,[1] agife he ðone reaflac ⁊ geselle LX scill. to wite.

11. [Be landbygene.]

Gif hwa his agenne geleod[2] bebycgge,[3] ðeowne oððe frigne,[4] ðeah he scyldig sie, ofer sæ, forgielde hine his were[5] [⁊ wið Godd deoplice bete].[6]

12. [Be gefangenum ðeofum.]

Gif ðeof sie gefongen, swelte he deaðe, oððe his lif be his were man aliese.

13. [Be þam þe heore gewitnesse geleogað.]

Gif hwa beforan biscepe his gewitnesse ⁊ his wed aleoge, gebete mid CXX scill.

§ 1. [(Be) hloðe.]

Ðeofas we hatað oð VII men; from VII[7] hloð oð XXXV; siððan bið here.

14. Se ðe hloþe betygen sie, geswicne[8] se[9] hine be CXX hida oððe swa bete.[10]

15. [Be herge.]

Se ðe hereteama betygen sie, he hine be his wer(illegible text)liese oððe be his were geswicne.[11]

§ 1. Se að sceal bion healf be huslgengum.

§ 2. Ðeof, siððan he bið on cyninges bende,[12] nah he þa swicne.[13]

16. [Be ðeofslæge.]

Se ðe ðeof ofslihð, se mot gecyðan mid aðe[14] þæt he hine synnigne[15] ofsloge, nalles ða gegildan.[16]

17. [Be forstolenum flæsce.]

Se ðe forstolen flæsc findeð ⁊ gedyrned,[17] gif he dear, he mot mid aðe gecyðan þæt he hit age; se ðe hit ofspyreð, he ah ðæt meldfeoh.

  1. Gif hwa reaflac ⁊ nydnæme binnan. . .rices gedo.
  2. leod. H. leodan. B.
  3. gebycge. H.
  4. frige. B.
  5. be his were. H & B.
  6. B.
  7. seofon monnum. H.
  8. geswicne. B.
  9. he. Bu.
  10. his aðe. B.
  11. geclensie. B.
  12. bendum. B.
  13. geswicne.
  14. gyldan. B.
  15. scyldig. B.
  16. gyldan. B.
  17. Schmid's emendation: all MSS -neð. Qui furtiuam carnem inuenerit et celatam (occultatam). Quad.