Aliquis honestus 500 solidi Ingenuus persona, 20 years old and up to 50 300 ” Ingenuus persona from 50 to 60 200 ” Older than this 100 ” Youths of 15 years 150 ” ” 14 ” 140 ” ” 13 ” 130 ” ” 12 ” 120 ” ” 11 ” 110 ” ” 10 ” 100 ” ” 7 to 9 90 ” ” 4 to 6 80 ” ” 2 to 3 70 ” ” 1 year 60 ” Daughter or wife from 15 to 40 250 ” ” ” 40 to 60 200 ” ” ” older 100 ” Under 15, half the payment for a male; liberti, half-payments. [Sidenote: Innocent homicide no longer to be paid for.] It is impossible to look upon this scale as fully representing ancient Gothic tribal tradition. And when we turn to the title ‘_De cæde et morte hominum_,’ which seems to belong to the same date, it becomes obvious how far the spirit of these laws had wandered away from any tribal standpoint and from all recognition of the solidarity of the kindred. A homicide committed unknowingly (‘nesciens’) is declared to be in the sight of God no cause of death. ‘Let the man who has committed it depart secure.’[97] Every man who killed another intentionally, and not by accident, was to be punished for homicide. The punishment had, in fact, already become a matter of criminal law. The prosecution for homicide was no longer to be left only to the parentes of the slain, ‘for they might be lukewarm’ (s. 15). The judex ought to take the matter up, and on neglect of his duty was to be liable for half the payment for homicide, viz. 250 solidi. Strangers in blood as well as relations had already been enabled to bring the accusation. [Sidenote: Homicides fleeing to a church to be handed over as slaves to the family of the slain.]