Where real property, in which any person claims an interest, was
disposed of before the coming of the Goths, and was transferred to the
possession of another party either by sale, donation, partition, or
any other transaction, whatever title or right to said property shall
be proved to have been formerly conveyed by the Romans shall remain
inviolable. But where a title to real property cannot be established
by any certain landmarks or boundaries, the following proceeding must
be observed, to wit: an examination of the premises must be made by
persons selected by the consent of all parties; and the judge, for his
own information, shall cause the oldest residents of the neighborhood
to be sworn, that they will, without fraud, show where the boundaries
of the land in question are situated; and no one shall establish a new
boundary without the presence of the other party, or in the absence of
one of the inspectors appointed by common consent, as aforesaid. If
a freeman should violate this provision, he shall be liable for the
penalty of forcible entry, as prescribed by law. Where a slave commits
this offence, without the knowledge of his master, he shall receive
two hundred lashes in public, but his master shall incur no liability
for his act.[50]
BOOK XI.
CONCERNING THE SICK AND THE DEAD, AND MERCHANTS WHO
COME FROM BEYOND SEAS.
TITLE I. CONCERNING PHYSICIANS AND SICK PERSONS.
=I.= _No Physician shall Presume to Bleed a Woman, in the
Absence of her Relatives._
=II.= _No Physician shall Visit Persons Confined in Prison._
=III.= _Where a Physician Treats Disease under a Contract._
=IV.= _Where a Sick Person Dies, while a Physician is Treating
him under a Contract._
=V.= _Where a Physician Removes a Cataract from the Eye._
=VI.= _Where a Freeman or a Slave Dies from Being Bled._
=VII.= _Concerning the Compensation to be Received for the
Instruction of a Student in Medicine._
=VIII.= _No Physician shall be Imprisoned without a Hearing._
=I. No Physician shall Presume to Bleed a Woman, in the Absence of her
Relatives.=
No physician shall presume to bleed a freeborn woman without the
presence of her father, mother, brother, son, uncle, or some other
relative, except urgent necessity should demand it; and where it
happens that none of the above-named persons can be present, the woman
must be bled in the presence of respectable neighbors or slaves, of
either sex, according to the nature of her illness. If a physician
should do this without the presence of any of the aforesaid persons,
he shall be compelled to pay ten _solidi_ to the husband or
the relatives of said woman; for the reason that it is not at all
improbable that, on such an occasion, wantonness may sometimes
occur.[51]
=II. No Physician shall Visit Persons Confined in Prison.=
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