=1.= If any one shall set fire to a house in which people were sleeping, as many freemen as were in it can make complaint before the _mallus_; and if any one shall have been burned in it, the incendiary shall be sentenced to 2,500 _denarii_, which make 63 _solidi_.[61] XVII. =1.= If any one shall have sought to kill another person, and the blow shall have missed, he on whom it was proved shall be sentenced to 2,500 _denarii_, which make 63 _solidi_. [Sidenote: Various deeds of violence] =2.= If any person shall have sought to shoot another with a poisoned arrow, and the arrow has glanced aside, and it shall be proved on him, he shall be sentenced to 2,500 _denarii_, which make 63 _solidi_. 5. If any one shall have struck a man so that blood falls to the floor, and it be proved on him, he shall be sentenced to 600 _denarii_, which make 15 _solidi_. =6.= But if a freeman strike a freeman with his fist so that blood does not flow, he shall be sentenced for each blow--up to 3 blows--to 120 _denarii_, which make 3 _solidi_.[62] XIX. [Sidenote: Use of poison or witchcraft] =1.= If any one shall have given herbs to another, so that he die, he shall be sentenced to 200 _solidi_, or shall surely be given over to fire. =2.= If any person shall have bewitched another, and he who was thus treated shall escape, the author of the crime, having been proved guilty of it, shall be sentenced to 2,500 _denarii_, which make 63 _solidi_. XXX. [Sidenote: Punishment for slander] =6.= If any man shall have brought it up against another that he has thrown away his shield, and shall not have been able to prove it, he shall be sentenced to 120 _denarii_, which make 3 _solidi_.[63] =7.= If any man shall have called another "gossip" or "perjurer," and shall not have been able to prove it, he shall be sentenced to 600 _denarii_, which make 15 _solidi_. XXXIV. =1.= If any man shall have cut 3 staves by which a fence is bound or held together, or shall have stolen or cut the heads of 3 stakes, he shall be sentenced to 600 _denarii_, which make 15 _solidi_. [Sidenote: The offense of trespass] =2.= If any one shall have drawn a harrow through another's field of grain after the seed has sprouted, or shall have gone through it with a wagon where there was no road, he shall be sentenced to 120 _denarii_, which make 3 _solidi_. =3.= If any one shall have gone, where there is no road or path, through another's field after the grain has grown tall, he shall be sentenced to 600 _denarii_, which make 15 _solidi_. XLI. =1.= If any one shall have killed a free Frank, or a barbarian living under the Salic law, and it shall have been proved on him, he shall be sentenced to 8,000 _denarii_. [Sidenote: Punishments for homicide]