Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 22, November, 1878Various
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Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 22, November, 1878
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5. For robbery and murder of a woman, a fourteen-fold fine and fourteen
blood-avengers.
_He who holds his tongue will save his head._
1. He who assaults a woman with intent to commit outrage shall forfeit a
thousand yards of linen to the community.
2. The life-blood of him who carries off a woman and keeps her by force
shall count for nothing.
3. If a slave touch a free woman, kill him.
4. He who murders a Jew shall fill a part of his skin with silver and
give it to the bek.
_He who holds his tongue will save his head._
1. If one be killed in a fight between a number of persons, and the
killer be unknown, the relatives of the killed may count as blood-enemy
any one whom they choose of those engaged in the fight.
2. If in a general fight several persons are killed, the relatives of
those who die first shall be the blood-seekers of the relatives of those
who die last.
3. If one die from wounds inflicted by several persons, count two of
them blood-enemies, and after the killing of one take a fine from the
other.
4. He who kills another and hides the body shall pay a sevenfold fine
and have seven blood-avengers.
_He who holds his tongue will save his head._
1. He who does not at once leave the village where his blood-seekers
live shall forfeit one hundred yards of linen for the benefit of the
community.
2. If a blood-enemy claim refuge, do not send him away: receive him.
3. If he wishes to go away, let no one travel with him.
4. If one be killed while travelling with a blood-enemy, his blood shall
count for nothing.
5. Him through whose betrayal a blood-enemy is killed, count as himself
a blood-enemy, with all his family.
_He who holds his tongue will save his head._
1. The bek shall summon the general assembly every year: if he does not,
remove him.
2. From him who does not come at the bek's call take a hundred yards of
linen.
3. From a country without a ruler, from a community without a general
assembly, from a flock without a shepherd, from an army without a leader
and from a village without aldermen, no good will come. Let him who has
sense think of this.
4. Have a care, bek! Speak the truth. Truth exalts a man and makes his
power endure for ever. The earth does not consume, but glorifies, the
body of him whom God has blessed.
5. Have a care, people of Kaitaga! Receive the truth. It is by justice
and truth that a community becomes great.
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