Our Legal Heritage by S. A. Reilly
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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. "If any one steals so that his wife and children don't know it, he shall pay 60 shillings as wite. But if he steals with the knowledge of all his household, they shall all go into slavery. A boy of ten years may be privy to a theft." "If one who takes a thief, or holds him for the person who took him, lets the thief go, or conceals the theft, he shall pay for |
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