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field, let him give the oaths of fifty men without bondman and without alltud; and three of them abjuring horse-riding and linen and woman. [1]Whoever shall admit homicide, let him and his kindred pay the sarhad of the person who is killed, and his galanas. And first, the murderer pays the murdered man's sarhad to his father and his mother and his brothers and his sisters; and if he was married, his wife is to receive a third of the sarhad from those. Moreover the third of the galanas will fall on the murderer and his father and his mother and his brothers and his sisters, apart from the kindred. Again, the third of the murderer is divided into three parts, the third to fall on the murderer himself, and the two parts on the father and the mother and the brothers and the sisters; and of those men each one pays as much as the other, and so the women; and no woman pays more than half the share of a man; and that third is to be paid to the slain person's father and mother and his co-heirs as in the case of his sarhad. The two shares which are imposed on the kindred are divided into three parts; and of these, the kindred of the father pays two shares, and the mother's kindred pays the third. The same generations of the kin-

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