| Keywords |
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| ID |
5229 |
| Text |
Edictus Rothari (643 - 643) Rothari, Rothair |
| Quotation |
Si quis homo liber arborem, ubi teclatura inter fines decenendas signata est, aut deleverit, octugena solidi sit culpabiles, medietatem regi et medietatem cuius arbor fuerit. et si servus per iussionem domini sui fecerit, dominus eius conponat ut supra octugenta solidos. |
| Translation |
If a freeman cuts down or destroys a tree on which marks designating boundaries have been made, he shall pay eighty solidi, half to the king and half to him whose tree it was. And if an enslaved man does this on order from his lord, the lord shall also pay eighty solidi as composition.
(Emended from K. Fischer-Drew, trans., The Lombard Laws (1973), p. 100) |
| Summary |
Rothari, No. 238 establishes an eighty solidi fine to be paid by a freeman if he either cuts down a tree with boundary markers on it, or else orders one of his enslaved workers to do so. |
| Quotation source |
MGH, LL 4, 1868 (F. Bluhme), pp. 59 |
| Temporal Coverage |
643 - 643 |
| Associated use case(s) |
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| Comment |
The Edictus Rothari forms part of the collected Edictus Langobardorum [Text, ID:984]. |
