is to be held downwards on a clean level floor, and its tail is to be held upwards ; and after that, wheat is to be poured about it until the tip of its tail be hidden, [and that is its worth]. [1]Another cat is four legal pence in value. [2]The teithi of a cat are as much as its legal worth. [3]The teithi of a cat are that it should be perfect of ear, perfect of eye, perfect of tail, perfect of teeth, perfect of claw, and without marks of fire, and that it should kill mice, and not devour its offspring, and that it should not be caterwauling every new moon.
[4]There is no dirwy for a dog although it be taken stealthily, nor camlwrw. The oath of one man is sufficient to disown a dog, for it is a back-burden of an unclean animal. If a dog attacks any person for the purpose of trying to tear him ; although the person should kill the dog with a weapon from his hand, he pays neither dirwy nor camlwrw for it. If a dog bites any person so that the blood comes, let the owner of the dog pay for the blood of the person ; if however the lacerated person kills the dog without moving thence, he receives nothing except sixteen of silver. [5]A dog accustomed [to bite], which shall tear a person three times ; unless its owner kills it, the law
