A Source Book of Mediæval History: Documents Illustrative of European Life and Institutions from the German Invasions to the Renaissance
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A Source Book of Mediæval History: Documents Illustrative of European Life and Institutions from the German Invasions to the Renaissance
Middle Ages -- Sources
=2.= But if he shall have thrown him into a well or into the water,
or shall have covered him with branches or anything else, to
conceal him, he shall be sentenced to 24,000 _denarii_, which make
600 _solidi_.
=3.= If any one shall have slain a man who is in the service of the
king, he shall be sentenced to 24,000 _denarii_, which make 600
_solidi_.[64]
=4.= But if he shall have put him in the water, or in a well, and
covered him with anything to conceal him, he shall be sentenced to
72,000 _denarii_, which make 1,000 _solidi_.
=5.= If any one shall have slain a Roman who eats in the king's
palace, and it shall have been proved on him, he shall be sentenced
to 12,000 _denarii_, which make 300 _solidi_.[65]
=6.= But if the Roman shall not have been a landed proprietor and
table companion of the king, he who killed him shall be sentenced
to 4,000 _denarii_, which make 100 _solidi_.
=7.= If he shall have killed a Roman who was obliged to pay
tribute, he shall be sentenced to 63 _solidi_.
=9.= If any one shall have thrown a freeman into a well, and he has
escaped alive, he [the criminal] shall be sentenced to 4,000
_denarii_, which make 100 _solidi_.
XLV.
[Sidenote: Right of migration]
=1.= If any one desires to migrate to another village, and if one
or more who live in that village do not wish to receive him--even
if there be only one who objects--he shall not have the right to
move there.
=3.= But if any one shall have moved there, and within 12 months no
one has given him warning, he shall remain as secure as the other
neighbors.
L.
[Sidenote: Enforcement of debt]
1. If any freeman or leet[66] shall have made to another a promise
to pay, then he to whom the promise was made shall, within 40 days,
or within such time as was agreed upon when he made the promise, go
to the house of that man with witnesses, or with appraisers. And if
he [the debtor] be unwilling to make the promised payment, he shall
be sentenced to 15 _solidi_ above the debt which he had promised.
LIX.
=1.= If any man die and leave no sons, the father and mother shall
inherit, if they survive.
[Sidenote: Rights of inheritance]
=2.= If the father and mother do not survive, and he leave brothers
or sisters, they shall inherit.
=3.= But if there are none, the sisters of the father shall
inherit.
=4.= But if there are no sisters of the father, the sisters of the
mother shall claim the inheritance.
=5.= If there are none of these, the nearest relatives on the
father's side shall succeed to the inheritance.
=6.= Of Salic land no portion of the inheritance shall go to a
woman; but the whole inheritance of the land shall belong to the
male sex.[67]
LXII.
[Sidenote: Payment of wergeld]
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