DU MARIAGE
Leget Wall., ood. Démet. T. 1. L. D, n. l-% p. 51».
If a man take a wife by gift of kindred , and he désert her before the end of the seven years ; let him pay her three pounds , as her agweddi , if she be the daugther of a breyr; and one poond and a half as her cowyll; and six score pence , as her gobyr : if she be the daugther of a taeog, one pound and a half, as her agweddi; six score pence, as her cowyll ; and twenty four pence , as her gobyr.
If, after the seven years, he leave her; let ail be shared between them, unless privilèges should give preoedenoe to the husband : two parts of the cfaildren go to the husband , and the third to the mother ; the eldest and the youngesi go to the father. If they be separated by death, let cvery thing be equally shared between them.
appeudice. 397
ihid., cod. Veoed. T. 1, p. 83; et c«d. Gueni, Aid,, ^ 747. Append.
40. Should bar husband be leprous, or bave fetid breatb, or be incapable of marital duties; if od accouat of one of thèse tbree thingg sbe leave ber husbaDd, she is to bave tbe whole of ber properiy.
44. If by dyiag they part, sbe is to bave every thing in two portions, except the corn ; no wife in tbe World is to bave a sbare of tbe corn, but and espoused wife.
42. If by dying and living tben separate, let tbe sick, aided by tbe confesser, sbare , and let tbe bealtby choose.
43. Tbe sick is not to bequeath aagbt, except a daered to tbe cburcb and an ebediw to tbe lord , and bis debts : and y sbould be bequeatb , the son can break the bequest ; and such a one i^ called the uncourteous son. Wboever therefore sball break a légal bequest , whether daered or debts sball be excommunicated , as a publican or pagan.
4 i. If living they separate, let ber and ber property remain in tbe bouse to the end of nine days and nine nights, to ascertain whether the séparation be légal ; and if the séparation be rigbt, at tbe end of tbe nintb day , let ber property go before , and, after the last penny, let ber go berself.
45. Tbe saraad of a married woman is according to the privilège of the husband ; that is, a third of ber husband saraad : before sbe is betrothed to a okan, it is according lo the privilège of ber brother's saraad ; tbat is, balf the saraad of ber brother.
46. Her galanas, whether married or not , is balf tbe galanas of her brother.
4 7. If tbe husband take another wife, aftdr be shaU bave parted from the first wife, the first is free.
48. If a man part from bis wife , and sbe be minded to take another husband, and tbe first husband should repent having parted from bis wife, and ovcrtake her wih one foot in the bed and the other outside the bed , tbe prier husband is to bave the woman.
tbùL, cod. Vened. T. I. U H. Cb. I, n. 56, p. 96.
A woman cannot be admitted as sorety, or witness oonceming a man.
/6m/., cod. Vened. T. I, L. H. Ch. 1, n. 60, p. 98.
A woman ought neither to buy nor sell wilbout consent of the husband unless sbe be a proprietrix : if sbe be a proprietrîx , bowever, she may buy and sell.
Ibid., cod. Démet. T. I. L. I, Ch. 18, d. 5, p. 517; et T. II, n. 31, p. 448.
If a wife utter a harsb , or disgraceful word to her husband ; let her pay to tbe husband three kine as Gamlwrw, for be is ber lord; or, let him strike ber three blows, with a rod of bis cubit length , on any part be may will, excepting her head.
Ibid,, T. Il, n. 30, p. 848.
Mulier erit secundum viri sui dignitatem ex quo ei data fuerit ; si cum viro alio coierit, et hoc notum fuerit , a suo poterit libère repudiari , nec de jure quicquam habebit prêter tria que sibi' aufèrri non possunt : adulter quidem viro prefato suum sarbaet reddat.
398 APPEN0IGB.
Ibid., cod. Démet. T. I. L. II. Ch. XVII, n. 4, p. 515.
A man ïb free to forsake bis wife if she Dotorîoûsly aUach herself to another man ; and she is to obtaia of her right, ezcepUng the. Ihree thlngs wich are not to be taken from a woman ; and the seducer is to pay to tiie lawful huaband bis saraad.
Ibid,, cod. Vcned. T. I, n. 3, p. 81.
« Of tbe children isvo sbares to the father, and one to the mother; the oldest and the Youngest to the falher and the middlemost to the mother. » « Theîr debts let them pay in equal sbares. »
Ibid., cod. Gaent. T. I, o. 14, p. 545.
a If they be separaled by death , every thing is to be equally shared between them. »
