owner. If however the back swells from the chafing of an old sore, and the skin be broken to the flesh, eight legal pence are to be paid. If there be no old sore on it, and the skin and flesh be cut to the bone, sixteen legal pence are to be paid. [1]Whoever shall deny the killing stealthily of a stallion or palfrey, let him give the oaths of twenty-four men. [2]A stud mare is six score pence in value. Her tail hair and her eye and her ear are each of them six legal pence in value. [3]Whoever shall ride a horse without consent of the owner, let him pay four pence for mounting, and four for alighting, and four for every rhandir which he traverses, to the owner of the horse ; and three kine camlwrw to the king. [4]Whoever shall sell a horse or a mare, let him be answerable for inward disorders, to wit, three mornings for the staggers, and three months for the glanders, and a year for the farcy. Let the person who shall buy it look to an outside blemish. [5]Whoever shall sell a horse, let him be answerable for the horse grazing and drinking water, and that it be not restive ; and if it be restive, let the person who sold it choose between taking the horse back or returning a third of the worth to the other. [6]Whoever shall protect a horse against thieves
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