(8) If he who is killed has no _parentes_ on his father’s side and he has on his mother’s side, let what appertains to her, viz. one-third of his wergeld, be paid. These clauses show that when a Norman or stranger was slain, in a certain way the king was to stand in the place of the absent kindred to see that justice was done. The maternal kindred of the slain, if such were at hand, should receive the third of the wergeld which pertained to them, and so presumably the paternal kindred, if they alone were present, should take the two thirds pertaining to them, the king taking the share of the maternal kindred. In any case the right of the _parentes_ was recognised when they were present. [Sidenote: When the slayer was a Norman.] Next with regard to the payment of the wergeld in the case of the slayer being a Norman or a stranger:-- Si quis hujusmodi faciat homicidium, parentes ejus tantum were reddant, quantum pro ea reciperent, si occideretur. (8) If any one commit homicide of this kind let his _parentes_ pay so much wergeld as they would have received if he [the slayer] had been killed. Si ex parte patris parentes habeat, et ex parte matris non habeat, et hominem occideret, reddant pertinentes ei quantum de ejus interfeccione reciperent, i. duas partes weregildi sui. (9) If he [the slayer] have _parentes_ on his father’s side and not on his mother’s and kills a man, they pay for him as much as they would have received had he been killed, _i.e._ two thirds of the wergeld. Si quis autem paterna cognacione carens male pugnet ut hominem occidat, si tunc cognacionem maternam habeat, reddat ipsa terciam partem were, terciam congildones, pro tercia fugiat. (10) If any one who has no paternal relations shall fight so wrongly as to kill a man and if he has maternal relations they shall pay one-third of the wer, the _congildones_ one-third, and for the other third let him flee. Si nec maternam cognacionem habeat, reddant congildones dimidiam weram, pro dimidia fugiat vel componat. If he has no maternal relations the _congildones_ shall pay half, and for half he shall flee or pay. Si quis occidatur ejusmodi secundum legem pristinam, si parentela careat, reddatur dimidium regi, dimidium congildonibus. If any such person is killed, then _according to ancient law_, if he have no kindred half shall be paid to the King and half to the _congildones_. [Sidenote: Recurrence to Anglo-Saxon custom.] These clauses are valuable as showing that to meet the circumstances arising upon the Norman Conquest there was a recurrence as far as possible to ancient law and Anglo-Saxon custom. [Sidenote: Protection of the kinless stranger.]