30. If a man slay another, let him pay with his own money (scætte) and with any sound feo [cattle].
Gif friman wið fries mannes wif geligeð his wer-gelde abicge ⁊ oðer wif his agenum scætte begete. ⁊ þæm oðrum æt þam gebrenge.
31. If a freeman lie with a freeman’s wife, let him pay his wergeld, and another wife obtain with his own scætte and bring her to the other.
Bots for injuries. For eye, hand, or foot 50 scillings.
Then follow chapters relating chiefly to injuries done and wounds inflicted, and the bots payable to the person injured for the same. It is not needful to mention more of these than the most important one, viz. that for the destruction of an eye, hand, or foot. The bots for all these in most other laws were alike. In Ethelbert’s Laws the bot for each of the three is fifty scillings, which happens to be the same as the mund-byrd of the King.
After the clauses for injuries there are several relating to women.
Injuries to women.
Gif fri wif locbore les wæs hwæt gedeþ xxx scll gebete.
73. If a lock-bearing free wife does wrong, xxx scillings bot.
Mægþbot sy swa friges mannes.