If any servant converts to his own use more than 40s. worth of
jewels, money, or goods from caskets entrusted to him for
safekeeping by a nobleman or other master or mistress, it shall be
a felony.
If a person breaks into a dwelling house by night to commit
burglary or murder, is killed by anyone in that house, or a person
is killed in self-defense, the killer shall not forfeit any lands
or goods for the killing.
Killing by poisoning shall be deemed murder and is punishable by
death.
A person who has committed a murder, robbery, or other felony he
has committed shall be imprisoned for his natural life and be
burned on the hand, because those who have been exiled have
disclosed their knowledge of the commodities and secrets of this
nation and gathered together to practice archery for the benefit
of the foreign realm. If he escapes such imprisonment, he shall
forfeit his life.
A person convicted or outlawed shall be penalized by loss of life,
but not loss of lands or goods, which shall go to his wife as
dower and his heirs.
Buggery may not be committed on any person or beast.
No one shall slander or libel the king by speeches or writing or
printing or painting.
No one shall steal fish from a pond on another's land by using
nets or hooks with bait or by drying up the pond.
The mayor of London shall appoint householders to supervise
watermen rowing people across the Thames River because so many
people have been robbed and drowned by these rowers.
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