condition. [1]Whoever is suspected concerning testimony, let him swear so that he may have right and law ; and then let the other take the relic and let him deny on his oath and let him object to the witness ; and after that let the judges take notice whether they object wholly. Whoever shall object to a witness before his testimony is given, let him lose the suit. [2]If a man in any host denies having killed [what is now] a corpse, let him pay six score pence and give the oaths of fifty men of the same status as himself to deny murder. [3]Whoever shall do sarhad to another of the people of these four gwlads, to wit, Deheubarth, Gwynedd, Powys, and Lloegr, let him pay four kine and four score of silver to him. [4]Whoever shall pay galanas to another [of the same gwlads], is to pay three score and three kine without addition. [5]Whoever shall find a dead wild sow (hwch coet[6]) on another person's land, let him take its fore quarter. [7]Another animal the flesh of which it is right to eat; the back quarter thereof he receives. If it be a fox or another uneatable animal ; he receives a curt penny from the owner of the land, if the latter (ynteu) wills to have the skin.
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