| John Allen Giles - 1848 - 458 pages
...he cannot acknowledge or confess his offences, let his father make compensation for his misdeeds." " If a man, kinless of paternal relatives, fight, and slay a man; then, if he have maternal relatives, let them pay a third of the ' wer' [fine or compensationmoney],... | |
| Albrecht von Baron HALLER - 1849 - 388 pages
...he cannot acknowledge or confess his offences, let his father make compensation for his misdeeds." " If a man, kinless of paternal relatives, fight, and slay a man ; then if he have maternal relatives, let them pay a third of the ' wer,' \Jine or compensation-money,"]... | |
| George Grote - 1849 - 592 pages
...made to rank in the position of distant relatives if there happen to be no blood relatives : — • " If a man, kinless of paternal relatives, fight and slay a man, then if he have maternal relatives, let them pay a third of the wer : his guild-brethren a third part... | |
| George Grote - 1853 - 446 pages
...relatives, fight and slay a man. then, if ho have maternal relatives, let them pay a third of the war: his guild-brethren a third part : for a third let...his guild-brethren pay half : for half let him flee .... If a man kill a man thus circumstanced, if he have no relatives, let half be paid to the king,... | |
| Alfred John Dunkin - 1855 - 580 pages
...attending the denunciation of him as a thief. The next mention is in Alfred's Laws, AD 871—901, 27. If a man kinless of paternal relatives fight and slay...have maternal relatives let them pay a third of the \rer, his guild brethren a third part— for a third let him flee: — If he have no maternal relatives... | |
| George Grote - 1859 - 442 pages
...blood relatives : — " If a man, kinless of paternal relatives, fight and slay a man. then, if ho have maternal relatives, let them pay a third of the...let him flee. If he have no maternal relatives, let bis guild-brethren pay half : for half let him flee .... If a man kill a man thus circumstanced, if... | |
| William Stubbs - 1870 - 568 pages
...cannot, let him forfeit his ' angylde,' and [let the reeve] take possession of the ' wite.' Cap. 27. If a man, kinless of paternal relatives, fight and...guildbrethren pay half, for half let him flee. Cap. 28. If a man kill a man thus circumstanced, if he have no relatives, let half be paid to the king, half... | |
| George Grote - 1872 - 572 pages
...happen to be no blood relatives : — "If a man, kinless of paternal relatives, fight and slay a man, then if he have maternal relatives, let them pay a...guild-brethren a third part : for a third let him flee. the ancient legally constituted families in Friesland and Dithmarsch, the Phis or Phara among the Albanians,... | |
| Luke Owen Pike - 1873 - 584 pages
...let the maternal relatives, if he have any, pay a third of the " wer," his guildbrethren a third, and for a third let him flee. If he have no maternal relatives, let his guild-brethren pay half, and for half let him flee. If a kinless man be slain, let half the " wer " be paid to the king, half... | |
| William Stubbs - 1881 - 612 pages
...forfeit his ' angylde,' and [let the reeve] take possession of the ' wite.' Cap. 27. If a man. kiuless of paternal relatives. fight and slay a man, and then...guildbrethren pay half, for half let him flee. Cap. 28. If a man kill a man thus circumstanced, if he have no relatives, let half be paid to the king, half... | |
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