Relatives, cannot testify against a stranger, 62.
Rent, where tenant does not pay, 341.
Rescue of criminals, 244;
of cattle seized in crops, 280.
Retaliation, law of, 211;
amount due in lieu thereof, 212–213.
River, right to enclose, where bank cultivated, 295.
Robbers, where concealed by freeman or slaves, 316.
Robbery, accessories before the fact, 267;
committed while on an expedition, 267.
Royal order, penalty for contempt of, 36.
S.
Sale, void if made under compulsion, 160;
where price not paid after earnest money given, 160;
where part of price paid, 161.
Sanctuary,
where a homicide takes, 227;
one claiming, cannot be rescued by force, 331;
may be killed if resists with arms, 331.
Scandal, public, what course to be pursued in, 324.
Seduction, penalty for, 93.
Self defence, where assault committed, 215.
Sentence of court must be public, 252.
Shipwreck, property rescued from, 243.
Slave, not worthy of credit, 61;
when allowed to testify, 61;
when given in marriage to another, 85;
may be tortured to reveal adultery, 98;
may not be liberated to conceal adultery, 98;
of Church, if emancipated cannot marry a freeborn person, 150;
penalty for, 151;
free after thirty years, 347;
sales by, void, 164;
where accuses former master of crime, 165;
may not be redeemed with his own property, 166;
where transferred for crime, 167;
where captured and sold by an enemy, 169;
how liberated, 181;
where has several masters, consent of all must be had, 182;
how may be returned to slavery, 183;
liberation of royal, 188;
if a criminal, may be demanded, 193;
where a, insults a freeborn person, 216.
Sodomy, penalty for, 111.
Soil, fruits of, what may be demanded, 175.
Solidus, no one may refuse to accept a, of legal weight, 262.
Soothsayers, penalty for consulting, 203.
Stolen property, when bought ignorantly, 240;
knowingly, 241;
he in possession of, must name thief, 269.
Strays, when found, must be taken up and appraised, 281;
where leave before driven out, 282;
if mutilated, penalty for, 282;
notice must be given, how, 301;
care of, 301;
must not be sheared or branded, 301.
Streams, right to enclose, 295.
Subornation of perjury, penalty for, 62.
Summons,
penalty for refusal to obey, 25;
time within which must be obeyed, 26.
Sunday, no litigation lawful on, 21.
T.
Tenant, must pay rent for land sublet, 339.
Testator, cannot dispose of same property in two different ways, 72.
Testimony, must be furnished by both parties, 41.
Theft, when committed by a slave, 238;
by a freeman and slave, 239;
by a master with his slave, 239;
of mill machinery, 242.
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