Anyone who shall, intentionally, drive beasts of burden, oxen, or any
kind of cattle into a vineyard, or field of growing grain, belonging to
another, shall be compelled to pay all damages, after they have been
appraised. If he is a person of high rank he shall pay a _solidus_
for every horse, or ox, and for every head of other cattle, a
_tremisa_, to him who has sustained the injury. If he is a person
of inferior rank, he shall pay for the property destroyed and one half
its value, in addition; and shall receive forty lashes in public. If a
slave should commit such an act, without the authority of his master,
either he, or his master, must pay all damages incurred, and the slave
shall receive sixty lashes.
=ANCIENT LAW.=
=XI. Where Animals Damage Growing Crops.=
Where animals belonging to any person injure the vineyard or growing
grain of another, the owner of said animals shall give to the person
whose property was damaged, as much of another vineyard or field,
with its fruit or crop, as is equal in value to that destroyed by
said animals. If the owner of said animals should not have a field or
vineyard with which to make restitution, he shall give as much fruit
or grain as shall be estimated to be equal in value to the land in
question.
=ANCIENT LAW.=
=XII. Where an Enclosed Field is Ruined by Flocks.=
If anyone turns cattle into an enclosed meadow, at such a time that
the grass will not grow afterwards, so that it can be cut, and he who
committed this act should be a slave, he shall receive forty lashes
with the scourge, and shall give to the owner of said meadow, hay equal
in amount to that which was destroyed. If he is a person of inferior
rank, he shall pay one _tremisa_ for every two head of cattle, and
make restitution for the hay; if he is a person of superior rank, he
shall pay one _solidus_ for every two head of cattle, and shall
make restitution for the hay, according to its value, as aforesaid.
=ANCIENT LAW.=
=XIII. Where Fruits of any Kind are Destroyed by Animals.=
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