(1) If a _filiusfamilias_ established with his wife in the paternal rites shall, without definition of the exact quantity, have added to property of his father property which he himself had with his wife; then, however many sons there may be, they shall, after the death of their father, receive _equal shares per capita with the grandfather and other co-sharers_ in the common substance even of lands acquired after the marriage was contracted, (2) they having to be excluded from other lands by the prior grade. (3) But if in the _mansio_ of his father the property which he had with his wife, had been defined, _that alone_, if the grandfather was alive when the father died, shall go to the sons, however many they may be. The Danish text (I. 5) is as follows:-- Vm bondæ sun förœr kono sina j bo mœth faþœr sinum. If a bonde’s son brings his wife into the house with his father. (1) Far bondæ sön konu oc förær hanæ j bo mæth faþur sinum, oc aflær barn wiþær hana oc læghs æy fælegh theræ i mællin, um tha dör bondans sön, tha taki all hans börn fullan lot æftir theræ faþær æm wæl j köpæ iorth sum j bolfæ. (2) Æn af hans fæthrinis iortho fa the æy wattæ mer æn han will giuæ them. (3) læghs fælagh, tha fa the æy mer æn han atte j bo. (1) If a bonde’s son gets a wife and brings her into the house with his father and begets a child with her and no partnership is made between them,[189] if the bonde’s son dies, then let all his children take a full lot after their father as well in land purchased as in moveables. (2) But of his [the bonde’s] father’s lands they get not a whit more than he will give them. (3) If partnership is made, then take they no more than he [their father] owned in the house. [Sidenote: If no arrangement on marriage wife’s property merged into the family stock.] This clause, in both the Latin and the Danish version, confirms the inference from the previous one, that there was a difference of destination as to the property of husband and wife according to whether it had or had not been ‘defined’ and so put in partnership as joint property of the husband and wife separately from the property of the family group represented by the grandfather. If not so defined, it became apparently under ancient custom part of the common family property and so divisible after the grandfather’s death among all the _consortes_ instead of going solely to the children of the marriage.