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Post by WestAlbany on Jul 16, 2020 20:00:25 GMT
The blacksmith must rouse all sleeping customers before he puts the iron in the fire. This is to guard against injuries by sparks.
Those who fall asleep again will receive no compensation for injuries.
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Post by WestAlbany on Jul 16, 2020 20:02:26 GMT
If the head of the blacksmith's hammer flies off and injures a customer, neither the smith nor the striker of the hammer is liable- unless they knew the head was loose.
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Post by WestAlbany on Jul 16, 2020 20:04:37 GMT
If a chip of wood from the carpenter's axe hits a bystander the carpenter is exempt from liability unless he deliberately aimed the chip at the bystander.
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Post by WestAlbany on Jul 16, 2020 20:05:48 GMT
The mill-owner is exempt from liability for injury to a person caught between the mill stones.
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Post by WestAlbany on Jul 17, 2020 10:42:21 GMT
If your land has neither fence nor stone wall you must restrain your beasts lest they damage your neighbour's property. For goats a shoe of leather goes on each leg, for yearling calves put on a spancel. The pig, which does the most damage of all, must wear a yoke.
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Post by WestAlbany on Jul 17, 2020 10:45:57 GMT
The fine for the hen's trespass into the neighbour's herb garden is one oat-cake plus a side-dish of butter or bacon.
To keep your hen at home you shall tie a withe around her feet.
(Note: a withe is a strip of flexible willows)
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Post by WestAlbany on Jul 18, 2020 9:49:56 GMT
If your neighbour does not repay the debt he owes you, you may prevent him from going about his daily business.
A withe-tie (for all to see) goes on the blacksmith's anvil, the carpenter's axe or the tree-feller's hatchet. He is on his honour to do no work until he has righted a wrong.
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Post by WestAlbany on Jul 18, 2020 9:51:23 GMT
If the poet or the physician is in debt, immobilize his horse-whip, for both ride their circuits on the back of horses.
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Post by WestAlbany on Jul 19, 2020 15:14:25 GMT
Five-fold are crimes:
the crime of the hand, by wounding or stealing; the crime of the foot, by kicking or moving to do evil deeds; the crime of the tongue, by satire, slander or false witness; the crime of the mouth, by eating stolen things; the crime of the eye, by watching while an evil deed is taking place.
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Post by WestAlbany on Jul 19, 2020 15:21:13 GMT
The fine for killing a bond-person held as security for a loan (or for killing a slave) is twenty-one cows; for killing a free farmer of Erin the fine is forty-two cows.
For killing a noble the fine for homicide is paid, plus an additional amount determined by his rank in society.
Fines are doubled for malice aforethought.
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Post by WestAlbany on Jul 20, 2020 11:38:42 GMT
For stealing pigs or your sheep, for stripping your herb garden, for wear down your hatchet or wood-ax, you my take neighbour's milk cows to the public pound for three days. If he does not want his cows taken to the pound for his crimes or his bad debts, he may give his son as security instead.
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Post by WestAlbany on Jul 20, 2020 11:44:05 GMT
Blush-fines are payable for insults offered to all persons of every rank except the ne'er-do-well, the squanderer, the selfish man who thinks only of his cows and his fields (and not of other people), the buffoon who distorts himself before crowd at a fair and the professional satirist.
Note: Blush-fines was a fine payable for causing embarrassment.
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Post by WestAlbany on Jul 21, 2020 10:36:49 GMT
Notice of the hound in heat and the mad dog must be sent to four nearest neighbourhoods.
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Post by WestAlbany on Jul 22, 2020 11:32:18 GMT
The lender of a horse must give notice of the horse's kicking habits.
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Post by WestAlbany on Jul 22, 2020 11:36:20 GMT
Three days is the stay of your cattle in the pound for a quarter in the ale-house, injury of thy chief, over-working a valuable horse, maiming thy chained dog, disturbing a fair or a great assembly, or striking or violating thy wife.
Five days for satirizing a man after his death.
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