If a father should kill his son; or a son his father; or a mother her daughter; or a brother his brother; or any person one nearly related to him; and he who commits such an act should be impelled by injury, or should be acting in self-defence, and it can be proven in open court, by respectable witnesses, who are worthy of credit, that the parricide was committed in self-defence; the party accused shall be in no danger of his life, and shall be discharged, without loss of property or subjection to torture; such discrimination being used as is proper in all cases of homicide. =FLAVIUS RECESVINTUS, KING.= =XX. Where One Slave Kills Another by Accident.= If one slave should be convicted of having accidentally killed another, his master shall pay to the master of the slave who was killed, by way of compensation, one half the sum required by law, under similar circumstances, where death ensues as the result of an accident. If the master should refuse to give satisfaction as aforesaid, he must surrender the slave to the master of the one who was killed. =ANCIENT LAW.= =XXI. Concerning Those who Destroy their Souls by Perjury.= If anyone, on account of oppression of any kind, should knowingly conceal the truth or should perjure himself; as soon as the fact shall come to the knowledge of the judge, he shall be arrested; shall receive a hundred lashes; shall be branded as an infamous witness; and shall never again be permitted to testify in court. And, as has been provided by a former law relating to perjury, a fourth part of his property shall be given, by order of the judge, to him whom he attempted to defraud. BOOK VII. CONCERNING THEFT AND FRAUD. TITLE I. CONCERNING INFORMERS OF THEFT. =I.= _Concerning Informers and Persons who give Information of Theft._ =II.= _A Slave, Acting as Informer, must not be Believed, unless the Testimony of his Master is also Given._ =III.= _Where the Informer Knew of the Commission of the Theft._ =IV.= _Concerning the Compensation of an Informer._ =V.= _Where an Innocent Person is Accused of Crime by an Informer._ =I. Concerning Informers and Persons who give Information of Theft.=