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26 TKE BURGUNDIAN CODE 8. Let him who presumes to do work with the ox of another without the owner's knowledge or permission be compelled to hand over two oxen to the owner. 1. If anyone strikes a native freeman with such presumption, let him pay a single solidus for each blow, and let him render a fine of six solidi to the king's treasury. 2. Whoever strikes another's freedman, let him pay a single semissis for each blow; moreover, let the fine be set at four solidi. 3. Whoever strikes another's slave, let him pay a single tremissis for each blow; moreover, let the fine be set at three solidi. 4. If anyone seizes a native freeman violently by the hair, if with one hand, let him pay two solidi; if with both hands, four solidi; moreover, let the fine be set at six solidi. 5. If anyone seizes a freedman or another's slave violently by the hair, either with one hand or with both, it is pleasing that determination of punishment be made as in the case of blows, whether against a freeman, a freedman, or a slave, and so also assessment of both composition and fine is required in cases of this kind. 6. If a slave strikes a native freeman with a blow of his fist, let him receive a hundred blows. 7. If indeed a master of a slave engages in a fight (is hard pressed in a struggle) with another and the slave, while wishing to help his master, strikes his master's opponent, let the master pay one solidusfor the blowstruck by the slave. derivin the word from vemlo rather than venio might give the meaning of 'kidin %one,""livery horse,"or a horse "for hire" asrelated to venditb (sale, for safe) or ventitio (customs, tax, payment) for which see ibid., VI, 168. Davoud-Oghlou, op. cit., I, 415 (L, 12) sug ests on1 that the man who keeps a horse more than one day shall be consiaed a Lief. ...
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