TITLE III. CONCERNING MERCHANTS WHO COME FROM BEYOND SEAS.
| I. | Where Foreign Merchants are Detected Selling Stolen Property. |
| II. | Foreign Merchants shall be Judged by their own Magistrates, and According to their own Laws. |
| III. | Where a Foreign Merchant Carries Away with him, from our Kingdom, a Person whom he has Hired. |
| IV. | Where a Foreign Merchant takes Away a Slave for Purposes of Commerce. |
I. Where Foreign Merchants are Detected Selling Stolen Property.
Where any foreign merchant sells gold, silver, clothing, or ornaments of any description, for a fair price, to any of our subjects, and said property should afterwards prove to have been stolen, the purchaser shall incur no liability therefor.
II. Foreign Merchants shall be Judged by their own Magistrates, and According to their own Laws.
When any legal cause of action arises between foreign merchants, it shall not be heard by any of our judges, but by their own, and it shall be decided according to their own laws.[52]
III. Where a Foreign Merchant Carries Away with him, from our Kingdom, a Person whom he has Hired.
No foreign merchant shall dare to remove, to his own country, a person hired by him, and who belongs to our kingdom. Whoever attempts to do so, shall pay a pound of gold to the royal treasury, and shall receive a hundred lashes in addition.
IV. Where a Foreign Merchant takes Away a Slave for Purposes of Commerce.
If any foreign merchant should take away with him, a slave belonging to our kingdom, for the purpose of conveying his merchandise, he shall pay three solidi a year for his services; and, at the termination of his contract, shall restore said slave to his master.