[1]Three sons being three brothers of the same mother and the same father, who are not to have a share of land from their brothers of the same mother and the same father as themselves : one is a son of thicket and bush, and after that, the same man taking to wife the same woman with consent of kindred and begetting a son of her ; that son is not to share land with the son begotten before him in thicket and bush. The second is, if a scholar marries a wife with consent of kindred and begets a son by her, and afterwards if the scholar takes priest's orders and after that a son is born to that priest by the aforesaid woman, the first son is not to share land with the last, because contrary to law was he begotten. The third is a mute, because land is not for any one who cannot answer for it ; for land (gwlat[2]) is not given to a mute.
[3]Three persons whose status rises in one day : when a taeogtrev has a church consecrated therein with the king's permission, a person of that trev, who is a taeog in the morning, becomes that night a free man. The second is a person to whom the king gives one of the twenty-four privileged offices, who, before the office is given him, is a taeog and
