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THE LAW OF THE WE8TGOTH8.
between the lot and the field shall stand closed ’) on Ascensionday.
Share-fence 2) between two lots shall always be in perfect condition, but no one
shall pay for it, if not the one owner brings complaint against the other.
10.
Landmark stones: two shall be dug into the ground, the third placed on
top of these. They shall testify, which lie in the ground.
1. A house may be built so near the border, that there is place for props
and eavesdrippings between.
11.
Moves someone his house away from the lot and cultivates this, then it
shall be called field and not lot. One shall then seek to be freed from
participation in the fence, that was between the lots, perfect and not imperfect.
12.
A road runs between two lots, it shall be twentyeight feet wide. Has
anyone a road over another’s lot, he shall lay out the road for him, from his
lot as he wishes, not in a ditch, nor in a bog, nor upon the mountain. Half of
the road shall each lay out between the lots.
1. A funeral way shall be laid out to church. A corpse cannot be brought
over another’s lot without his consent, without becoming guilty of a fine of
three sixteenörtugs.
13.
Someone goes to dwell in his field or meadow, then he shall fence about
himself. Someone has a fence in front of him, then shall he legally demand by
a seventh-night-thing and twelve men’s oath, to have it torn down, and let
bring evidence, that this fence stands in front of his dwelling place, so that he
has no road out therefrom. Does he not tear down the fence before the day of
the seventh-night-thing, pay three sixteenörtugs, and the other one removes
the fence, according to decision of the thing, and let himself be adjudged to
keep the fence in order, so long as his dwelling place is there.
1. Does he move his buildings, then he shall seek to be freed from the fence
in the same way that he formerly sought responsibility, let him have
judgment for perfect fence and not imperfect.
2. Builds someone a house in an open field, where other neighbors have
land round about them, he cannot dwell there lawfully. They shall set and
hold for him a seventh-nighi>thing, bring forth evidence that "he dwells in an
1) That is, the fence should be in good condition.
2) A fence which should be kept in order jointly by two neighbors.
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