dred are to pay galanas along with the murderer to the same generations who receive it on the part of the murdered, from the ancestor in the fifth remove to the fifth cousin. [1]Thus are named the nine degrees of a kindred who are to pay galanas and to receive it, and their members. The first of the nine degrees is the father and mother of the murderer or of the murdered. The second is a brother and sister. The third is a grandfather. The fourth is a great grandfather. The fifth is a cousin. The sixth is a second cousin. The seventh is a third cousin. The eighth is a fourth cousin. The ninth is a fifth cousin. The members of the degrees are the nephew and uncle of the murderer or the murdered. A nephew is a son of a brother or a son of a sister, or of a cousin male or female, or of a second cousin. An uncle is a brother of a father or mother, or of a grandfather or a grandmother, or of a great grandfather or a great grandmother. And this is the amount of the share of each one of all these when paying galanas or receiving it. Whoever may be in kinship nearer than another by one generation to the murderer or the murdered, pays or receives twice as much as that other ; and so in respect to each
- ↑ V 17 b 15
