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slave does not pay fines for insult to anyone.
Concerning all inheritances
If there are minors, who are young, after their father s death, and
3 also sons who are grown men, then the eldest must not part from
the youngest, even if need may arise, before he (i.e. the youngest)
19/126 B has a new chapter here: 23 If someone blocks another s way
19/126 horseman s B: man s
19/131 another three B: three marks
19/132 B has a new chapter here: 24 If slaves fight
19/132 if he B: if
19/136 blows B omits.
19/137 to him B: blow
19/142 The paragraph at 20/40 45 appears here in A, evidently misplaced, but
in the correct place in B, although in the margin.
20/1 B: 25
THE LAW OF THE GOTLANDERS
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is of age. They are to have enjoyment of everything undivided
until he is fifteen years of age. Then he is to take his scrip and his 6
scales and each have responsibility for himself, if they no longer
wish to be together. If need arises, so that they have to part with
land to buy food before they are all of age, an equal amount shall 9
be taken in pledge from each, the eldest as well as the youngest,
and sell it outright. Should someone take the young minor
as a ward, however, whether a male or a female, and feed him 12
until he is of age, then he (i.e. the minor) keeps his portion, even
if the others are forced to part with their land to buy food. If a
father marries his son off and the son dies and leaves behind 15
daughters, they shall remain in their grandfather s care and await
their portion. If the head of the family dies and there are no
surviving sons, the daughters and sons daughters divide the 18
inheritance according to their numbers. If the man has other sons,
the son s daughters (i.e. the daughters of the deceased son) inherit
their father s portion between them. In the same way inheritance 21
is passed from the father s mother if she lives longer than her
son. If an heiress has inherited land, then the one inherits from
the other however many generations there might be, whether male 24
or female, while her descendants exist. When the line has run out
and has included two male descendants but not a third, then the
inheritance reverts to the farm from which it first came. If it has 27
included a third and all three follow each other, then it remains
with the farm to which it has come, even if the line has died out.
If an heiress has inherited her portion and leaves no sons, then the 30
next of kin inherits. If both are equally close, a man and a woman,
then the man inherits and not the woman.
If there are no sons on the farm, then the daughter inherits her 33
maternal inheritance and her father s maternal inheritance after
her father. If her paternal aunts survive, married or single, then
20/5 They are B: They are all
20/11 B; A omits.
20/12 however A has a superfluous not here.
20/28 it remains B: remains
20/33 B has a new chapter here: 26 If the male line is broken
28 GUTA LAG
36 they take her father s maternal inheritance (i.e. a share in this
inheritance). If some are unmarried, they take an eighth of the
monetary value of the paternal inheritance (i.e. of their niece)
39 after debts have been paid.
If there are no sons on the farm, then the kinsmen each inherit
their per capita share to the fourth generation. If it (i.e. the relation-
42 ship) is more remote, then they take an eighth part after debts are
paid. A woman, however, is to take as much from the farm as she
has put in, if it is written down in the first year. If it is not written
45 down, then the farm has the right of substantiation of its case.
If there is no male heir and a widow remains at the farm, then
she is to have, as provisions at the farm for a year, a bushel of rye
48 and another bushel of barley each month, if she does not die or
marry away. But as to the property that she brought to the farm,
she is to take out of the farm that which she brought to it. If a
51 woman marries into several farms and has children in several,
then all children inherit their maternal inheritance equally, both
land and movables. And brothers receive for their full sisters,
54 whether they are married or unmarried. If a woman is married
out of the farm with a dowry and has no male heir, then it (i.e. the
dowry) reverts to the farm from which she married. If there are
57 no male heirs to the farm then the next of kin inherits, whether
male or female, but in the case of a woman no further than the
fourth generation. If they are both of equal degree, however, the
60 man inherits. It is also the law that a woman inherits consolation
and provision from her husband. If she stays for a longer time on
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