The eric fine is to be paid by the slayer’s kindred (fine), as they divide his property (cro). He (the slayer) shall pay a cumhal of restitution (aithgin) and as much as a son or a father of the six cumhals of the dire-fine.
As to crimes of non-necessity:—[65]
he himself is to be given up for it, with his cattle and his land.
The kindred of ‘near hearths’ were liable for the whole eric.
If he has not enough to pay the eric or is not to be caught, then
it is to be paid by his son until his cattle and his land be spent on it (or failing him) by his father in the same manner.
Lastly, failing both the son and the father,
it is to be paid by each nearest hearth (teallach) to him until all they have is spent, or full payment of the crime is made up among them.
So that, in the absence or in default of the murderer, at the date of this Brehon tract, his family and kindred were answerable for the whole of the eric in the case of wilful murder.