=VI. Where One, Intending to Inflict a Slight Injury, Kills Another.= Where anyone, attempting to commit an injury, gives a kick, or a blow with the fist, or commits any other violent act, and death should result, the guilty party shall be punished for homicide. =VII. Where One, in Sport, or Recklessly, Kills Another.= Whoever incautiously, or recklessly, or in sport, or in a crowd, unintentionally, by a fatal blow, strikes or kills anyone; because no malicious intention or desire to injure existed, shall incur no infamy for having committed an assault or homicide, even though he should be convicted by oath, or by the testimony of witnesses; nor shall he be liable to punishment by death, because he did not kill the person intentionally. But, for the reason that he struck the fatal blow without due caution, and did not attempt to avoid an accident, he shall pay a pound of gold to the nearest relatives of the deceased, and shall receive fifty lashes with the scourge. =FLAVIUS RECESVINTUS, KING.= =VIII. Where One Kills Another through Immoderate Punishment.= If it should happen that a scholar, or any person under the patronage, or in the service of another, while undergoing moderate corporeal punishment, inflicted by his teacher, patron, or master, should die as a result of the same; and that he who inflicted the punishment entertained neither hatred or malice toward him whom he killed; he shall neither be rendered infamous, nor punished on account of the homicide; for the reason that it is said in the Holy Word of God that he shall be unhappy, who does not inflict punishment. =FLAVIUS RECESVINTUS, KING.= =IX. Where a Freeman Kills a Slave by Accident.= If a freeman should kill a slave not intentionally, but by accident, he shall be compelled to pay to the master of the slave one-half of the amount which has been provided by way of reparation in the case of freeborn persons, under similar circumstances. =FLAVIUS RECESVINTUS, KING.= =X. Where a Slave Kills a Freeman by Accident.= If a slave should kill a freeborn person not intentionally, but accidentally, he shall pay the same sum which a former law has provided in the case of other freeborn persons. But if the master should be unwilling to pay said sum for his slave, the latter must, at once, be given up to justice. =ANCIENT LAW.= =XI. Where One Man Intentionally Kills Another.= Every man who kills another intentionally, and not by accident, is liable to punishment for homicide. =FLAVIUS CHINTASVINTUS, KING.= =XII. No Master shall Kill his Slave without Good Reason; and Where One Freeman Kills Another.=