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44 THE BURGUNDIAN CODE XXIX I. If anyone in an act of assault or robbery kills a merchant or anyone else, let him be killed; with the further condition that if those things which he took cannot be found, let them be compensated in fee simple from his property. 2. But if a man committing an assault shall have been killed by those whom he intended to rob, let no suit be brought for this reason against the killers by the master or relatives of the man killed. 3. We order all lawbreakers who plunder houses or treasure chests to be killed. XXX OF WOMEN VIOLATED. 1. Whatever native freeman does violence to a maidservant, and force can be proved, let him pay twelve solidi to him to whom the maidservant belongs. 2. If a slave does this, let him receive a hundred fifty blows. XXXI OF PLANTING VINEYARDS. I. Among Burgundians and Romans, we order that the rule be observed that whoever plants a vineyard in a common field with no opposition shall restore a like field to him in whose holding he placed the vineyard. 2. If indeed after prohibition anyone presumes to plant a vineyard in another's field, let him lose his labor, and let him whose field it is receive the vineyard. XXXII OF HIM WHO HAS BOUND A MAN ILLEGALLY OR WITHOUT CAUSE. 1. If a native freeman binds an innocent native freeman, let him pay twelve solidi to him whom he bound, and let the amount of the fine be twelve solidi. ...
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