sea,”--so if the warranter was within the limits of _Scotia_ the challenged party was bound to produce him in a fortnight, an additional month being allowed if he dwelt beyond the borders: and as it is obvious that there must occasionally have been considerable difficulty in procuring the attendance of a reluctant _Hamehald_, his lord was bound to enforce his attendance under penalty of forfeiting one hundred cows, the recusant himself being mulcted in three times the value of the challenged property, whilst he who failed his warranter was proclaimed an outlaw. Every assistance in the search was to be given by the Vicecomes and his officers--the Sheriff of Inverness being answerable for the whole of _Moravia_, whilst the Earl of Atholl, or the Abbot of Glendochart, were responsible for Scottish Argyle, and the Earl of Menteith for Cantyre and Cowal, the sheriffdom being as yet unknown throughout the territories of the _Oirir-Gael_.[293] Considerable light is thrown by these regulations upon the comparative dependance of different parts of Scotland upon the crown during the reign of David; and as they are not extended to the Lothians, which remained under the jurisdiction of the Northumbrian ealdormen for nearly a century after similar rules appear in the Anglo-Saxon codes, it may be inferred from this silence, not that the law was not enforced throughout southern Scotland, but that the _Team_ was a familiar process to the population between Forth and Tweed, at the time when David first extended its provisions over the rest of his kingdom.