Part 5 (1/2)

XII.

[Sidenote: Theft by a freeman]

=1.= If a slave steal, outside of a house, something worth 2 _denarii_, besides paying the value of the object and the fines for delay, he shall be stretched out and receive 120 blows.

=2.= But if he steal something worth 40 _denarii_, he shall pay 6 _solidi_. The lord of the slave who committed the theft shall restore to the plaintiff the value of the object and the fines for delay.

XIV.

[Sidenote: Robbery with a.s.sault]

=1.= If any one shall have a.s.saulted and robbed a freeman, and it be proved on him, he shall be sentenced to 2,500 _denarii_, which make 63 _solidi_.

=2.= If a Roman shall have robbed a Salian Frank, the above law shall be observed.

=3.= But if a Frank shall have robbed a Roman, he shall be sentenced to 35 _solidi_.

XV.

[Sidenote: The crime of incendiarism]

=1.= If any one shall set fire to a house in which people were sleeping, as many freemen as were in it can make complaint before the _mallus_; and if any one shall have been burned in it, the incendiary shall be sentenced to 2,500 _denarii_, which make 63 _solidi_.[61]

XVII.

=1.= If any one shall have sought to kill another person, and the blow shall have missed, he on whom it was proved shall be sentenced to 2,500 _denarii_, which make 63 _solidi_.

[Sidenote: Various deeds of violence]

=2.= If any person shall have sought to shoot another with a poisoned arrow, and the arrow has glanced aside, and it shall be proved on him, he shall be sentenced to 2,500 _denarii_, which make 63 _solidi_.

5. If any one shall have struck a man so that blood falls to the floor, and it be proved on him, he shall be sentenced to 600 _denarii_, which make 15 _solidi_.

=6.= But if a freeman strike a freeman with his fist so that blood does not flow, he shall be sentenced for each blow--up to 3 blows--to 120 _denarii_, which make 3 _solidi_.[62]

XIX.

[Sidenote: Use of poison or witchcraft]

=1.= If any one shall have given herbs to another, so that he die, he shall be sentenced to 200 _solidi_, or shall surely be given over to fire.

=2.= If any person shall have bewitched another, and he who was thus treated shall escape, the author of the crime, having been proved guilty of it, shall be sentenced to 2,500 _denarii_, which make 63 _solidi_.

x.x.x.

[Sidenote: Punishment for slander]

=6.= If any man shall have brought it up against another that he has thrown away his s.h.i.+eld, and shall not have been able to prove it, he shall be sentenced to 120 _denarii_, which make 3 _solidi_.[63]

=7.= If any man shall have called another ”gossip” or ”perjurer,”