6. If he cuts off the rest of the fingers (that is, the other three) at one blow, he shall pay 50 solidi. 7. If he cuts off two of them, he shall pay 35 solidi. 8. If he cuts off one of them, he shall pay 30 solidi. XLI. _Manslaughter._{12} 1. If anyone is convicted of killing a free Frank or a barbarian living by the Salic law, he shall pay 8,000 denarii, which make 200 solidi. 2. If he has put the body in a well, or under water, or has covered it with branches or other things for the purpose of hiding it, he shall pay 24,000 denarii, which make 600 solidi.{13} 3. If anyone kills a man in the king's trust, or a free woman, he shall pay 24,000 denarii, which make 600 solidi. 4. If he kills a Roman who was a table-companion of the king, he shall pay 12,000 denarii, which make 300 solidi. 6. If the slain man was a Roman landowner, and not a table-companion of the king, he who slew him shall pay 4,000 denarii, which make 100 solidi. 7. If anyone kills a Roman _tributarius_, he shall pay 63 solidi. {12} The fine for slaying a man is the _wergeld_ referred to in the introduction. It was paid to the kin of the slain man by the slayer or his kin. The _wergeld_ has different values for different classes; note the classes in the Salic law, particularly the position of the persons in the royal service, the importance of which must have been of comparatively recent origin, and the position of the Roman population. The freeman of the Frankish tribe has a _wergeld_ of 200 solidi, the free woman three times that, 600 solidi; the Roman _possessor_, or free landowner, 100 solidi; the Roman _tributarius_, who cultivated the land of another at a fixed rent, and was regarded as less than a freeman, 62-1/2 solidi. If the freeman was in the king's trust, that is, in the service of the king and probably bound to him by a special oath (these men are also called _antrustiones_; see nos. 180 and 189), his _wergeld_ was three times that of the ordinary freeman, 600 solidi; that of the Roman who was a table-companion of the king, a relation similar to that of the man in the king's trust, was also tripled, 300 solidi. {13} The fact of concealment is the distinguishing mark between murder and manslaughter. XLV. _The Man who Removes from One Village to Another._{14} 1. If anyone desires to enter a village, with the consent of one or more of the inhabitants of that village, and a single one objects, he shall not be allowed to settle there. 3. But if anyone settles in another village and remains there twelve months without any one of the inhabitants objecting, he shall be allowed to remain in peace like his neighbors.