A sheriff, coroner, or any
other bailiff who conceals a felony will be imprisoned for a
year and pay a fine, or be imprisoned for three years if he
cannot pay the fine.
Villeins must report felons, pursue felons, serve in the
watch, and clear growth of concealing underwood from roads.
They must join the military to fight on the borders when
called. Desertion from the army is punishable.
Accessories to a crime shall not be declared outlaw before
the principal is proven guilty. (This made uniform the
practice of the various counties.)
Only those imprisoned for the smaller offenses of a single
incidence of petty larceny, receipt of felons, or accessory
to a felony, or some other trespass not punishable by life
or limb shall be let out by sufficient surety. Prisoners who
were outlawed or escaped from prison or are notorious
thieves or were imprisoned for felonious house burning,
passing false money, counterfeiting the King's seal, treason
touching the king himself, or other major offenses or have
been excommunicated by the church may not be released.
Killing in self-defense and by mischance shall be pardoned
from the King's indictment. Killing by a child or a person
of unsound mind shall be pardoned from the King's
indictment. (But a private accuser can still sue.)
Any man who ravishes [abducts] any woman without her consent
or by force shall have the criminal penalty of loss of life
or limb.
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