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sickle and the middle augre; and the husband has all the irons save those. The wife has the ox car and the yokes and all the milk vessels save one pail, and all the dishes save one dish which the husband has. The wife has all the butter save one vesselful which the husband has ; and if there be lumps of butter, the husband has one. The wife has all the flesh which shall be on the floor, salted and unsalted, and all the cheese which shall be in brine and unsalted ; and the husband has all the hung flesh and cheese. [1]The wife is to be in her house waiting for her share of the chattels until the end of the ninth day. [2]A wife who shall declare herself to be pregnant when her husband shall die, ought to remain in her house until it shall be known whether she be pregnant ; and if she be not pregnant, let her pay three kine camlwrw to the king; and let her leave the house and the land to the heir.

[3]If two women shall be journeying through any place and there be no one with them, and two men meet them and violate them, they are not to be compensated. If however there be one person with them although ever so little, unless he be a carried child, they lose none

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