If one deceives an unbetrothed woman and sleep with her, he must
pay for her and have her afterwards to wife. But if her father not
approve, he should pay money according to her dowry.
"If a man seize hold of the breast of a ceorlish woman, let him
make bot to her with 5 shillings. If he throw her down and do not
lie with her, let him make bot with 10 shillings. If he lie with
her, let him make bot with 60 shillings. If another man had before
lain with her, then let the bot be half that. ... If this befall a
woman more nobly born, let the bot increase according to the wer."
"If any one, with libidinous intent, seize a nun either by her
raiment or by her breast without her leave, let the bot be
twofold, as we have before ordained concerning a laywoman."
"If a man commit a rape upon a ceorl's female slave, he must pay
bot to the ceorl of 5 shillings and a wite [fine to the King] of
60 shillings. If a male theow rape a female theow, let him make
bot with his testicles."
For the first dog bite, the owner pays 6 shillings, for the
second, 12 shillings, for the third, 30 shillings.
An ox which gores someone to death shall be stoned.
If one steals or slays another's ox, he must give two oxen for it.
The man who has land left to him by his kindred must not give it
away from his kindred, if there is a writing or witness that
such was forbidden by those men who at first acquired it, and by
those who gave it to him; and then let that be declared in the
presence of the king and of the bishop, before his kinsmen.
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