Our Legal Heritage: King AEthelbert - King George III, 600 A.D. - 1776Reilly, S. A.
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Our Legal Heritage: King AEthelbert - King George III, 600 A.D. - 1776
Reilly, S. A.
Law -- England -- History
If theft is discovered on anyone's land and the thief is discovered,
the lord of the estate and the thief's wife shall have half of his
property and the claimants shall have their goods, if they find them.
And with regard to the other half, if the theft is discovered in a
district over which the lord has rights of jurisdiction, the wife shall
lose her share and it shall pass to the lord.
"Further, we forbid the buying or selling of any livestock except
within towns and before three trustworthy witnesses, likewise that of
any second-hand goods without a surety and warrantor." The penalty is
twice the value of the goods and the fine for insubordination.
No one shall buy anything of 4d. in value, either livestock or other
property, unless he has 4 men as witnesses either from a town or a
village. If anyone claims it and he has no witnesses and no warrantor,
the goods shall be given up to the claimant and the fine shall be paid
to the party who is entitled thereto. And if he has such witnesses,
vouching to warranty shall take place three times; and on the fourth
occasion he shall prove his ownership of it or deliver it up.
If anyone has taken livestock into his care, whether horses or oxen or
cows or sheep or pigs, the man who claims them shall pay 8d. and no
more in return for the care of them, however many there are up to a
hundred head of cattle. As for one pig, 1d, for one sheep, 1d., and so
on up to 8d. And he shall give pledge and find surety, that if another
man comes forward within a year and a day to claim them, he will bring
it for decision to the court of the man who had taken them into his own
care.
Strayed livestock and found property shall be exhibited in three parts
of the neighborhood. Anyone who claims it shall give pledge and surety
and if another claims it within a year and a day, he will bring it for
decision to the court of the man who found it.
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