If any one shall kill a freeman--a Frank or barbarian man who lives under the Lex Salica--let him whose guilt is proved be judged to be liable for viii. M. denarii, which make cc. solidi. As this clause probably dates before the issue of Merovingian solidi of diminished weight, the 200 solidi of the wergeld may be taken to have been at the date of the law 200 gold solidi of Imperial standard. So that the wergeld of the Frank or the free ‘barbarus living under the Lex Salica’ originally, when paid in gold solidi, was neither more nor less than the normal wergeld of a heavy gold mina. [Sidenote: Officials had a triple wergeld.] We learn from clause 2 of the same title that if the homicide was aggravated by concealment of the corpse the composition was increased to 24,000 denarii or 600 solidi, and that the wergeld of a person ‘in truste dominica’ was again 600 solidi. The Royal Official thus, as in several other laws, had a triple wergeld. Then lastly under the same title are three clauses describing the wergelds of the ‘Romanus homo conviva Regis,’ as 300 solidi, of the ‘Romanus homo possessor’ as 100 solidi, and of the ‘Romanus tributarius’ in some texts 45, and in others 63, 70, and 120 solidi. In Codex 10 the ‘Romanus possessor’ is described as the man who in the pagus in which he lives _res proprias possidet_. The natural inference from these lesser wergelds is that the Gallo-Romans were not ‘living under the Lex Salica,’ but under their own Gallo-Roman law, with wergelds one half the amount of those of the Frankish freemen. Another of the 65 titles, viz. LIV., gives a further set of wergelds. The wergeld of a _grafio_ is to be 600 solidi, that of a _sacebaro_ or _ob-grafio_ who is a _puer regis_ 300 solidi, and that of a _sacebaro_ who is an _ingenuus_ 600 solidi. The _sacebaro_ was apparently the lowest in rank of judicial officials except the _rachinburgus_, and the clause adds that there ought not to be more than three sacebarones in each malberg. We may conclude from these statements that, the wergeld of the freeman living under the Lex Salica being 200 gold solidi, the higher wergelds up to 600 solidi were the threefold wergelds of public officials, _i.e._ threefold of the wergeld of the class to which they belonged. The wergeld of the sacebaro who was a _puer regis_ was three times that of the Romanus possessor. The sacebaro who was an _ingenuus_ had a wergeld three times that of the ingenuus living under Salic law. [Sidenote: Strangers in blood had only half wergelds _Romanus possessor_ 100 solidi.] We are thus brought into contact with an interesting question. These laws, made after conquest and settlement on once Roman ground, ought to be good evidence upon the tribal method of dealing with strangers in blood: _i.e._, in this case, the Gallo-Roman conquered population. And these clauses seem to show that half wergelds only were awarded to them under Salic law.