pence in value until the calends of May. Thence until August, it is forty-eight pence in value. Until the calends of December, it is fifty pence in value. Until the calends of February, it is fifty-two pence in value. The following morning a yoke is put upon it, for then it is the second work year ; and that adds four legal pence to its worth, and two pence likewise for the season ; and then it is three score pence in value. [1]The teithi of an ox are ploughing in furrow and on sward and that without swerving, and it has no teithi unless it does so ; and unless it have teithi, let the third of its worth be returned to the person who shall buy it. [2]Whoever shall sell a steer legally, let him be answerable against the staggers for three days ; and three months against the glanders ; and a year against the farcy. [3]Whoever shall sell a calf or a yearling, let him be answerable against the scab from the calends of winter until the Feast of Patrick. An ox is not in its prime save from the second work year until the sixth work year ; nor a cow save from her second calf until the ninth calf; and although they should continue beyond that period, their worth is not to be lowered while they shall live. [4]If the cattle of a trevgordd
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