LXXIX. Pater filium necessitate coactus in servitium sine voluntate filii tradat.
“A father, compelled by necessity, may deliver his son into slavery without the will of that son.”
LXXXIX. Episcopus et abbas hominem sceleratum servum possunt habere, si precium redimendi non habet.
“A bishop or an abbot can hold a criminal in slavery, if he have not the price of his redemption.”
CXVII. Servo pecuniam per laborem comparatam nulli licet auferre.
“It is not lawful for any one to take away from a slave the money made by labour.”
In the council of Verberie, held in a palace of King Pepin, the sixth canon made regulations in the case of marriage between free persons and slaves. The following are its provisions:
1. If any free person contracted marriage with a slave, being at the time ignorant of the state of bondage of that party, the marriage was invalid.
2. If a person under bond should have a semblance of freedom by reason of condition, and the free person be ignorant of the bondage, and this bond person should be brought into servitude, the marriage was declared originally void.
3. An exception was made where the bond person, by reason of want, should, with the consent of the free party, sell himself or herself into perfect slavery with the consent of the free party; then the marriage was to stand good, because the free party had consented to the enslavement, and profited of its gains.