[482]. “Æfter ðǽre ylcan wísan mót mon feohtan mid his geborenum mǽge, gif hine mon on woh onfeohtað; búton wíð his hláford, ðæt we ne lýfað.” Ælf. § 42. Thorpe, i. 90.
[483]. “Gif he ðonne ðæs weddie ðe him riht sý tó gelǽstanne and ðæt áleóge, selle mid eádmédum his wæpn und his ǽhta his freóndum tó gehealdanne, and beó feowertig nihta on carcerne on cyninges túne; þrowige ðǽr swá biscop him scrífe, and his mǽgas hine féden gif he self mete næbbe; gif he mǽgas næbbe, oððe ðone mete næbbe, féde cyninges geréfa hine.” Ælf. § 1. Thorpe, i. 60. There is a similar provision in Ælf. § 5. Thorpe, i. 64. Ælf. § 42. Thorpe, i. 90.
[484]. Ælf. § 13. Thorpe, i. 70.
[485]. “Gif fæderenmǽga mǽgleás mon gefeohte and mon ofsleá, and ðonne gif he médrenmǽgas hæbbe, gylden ðá ðæs weres þriddan dǽl, þriddan dǽl ða gegyldan, for þriddan dǽl he fleó. Gif he médrenmǽgas náge, gylden ða gegyldan healfne, for healfne he fleó. Gif mon swá gerádne mon ofsleá, gif he mǽgas náge, gylde mon healfne cyninge, healfne ðám gegyldan.” Ælfr. § 27, 28. Thorpe, i. 78, 80.
[486]. Ælfr. § 41. Thorpe, i. 88.
[487]. Eadw. ii. § 9. Æðelst. v. cap. 12, § 2. Thorpe, i. 164, 242.
[488]. Æðelst. i. § 1, 6; v. cap. 1, § 4, cap. 9. Thorpe, i. 198, 202, 228, 238.
[489]. Æðelst. i. § 2. Thorpe, i. 200. Upon the just principle that “He may die without law who refuseth to live by law.” “Utlagatus et weyviata capita gerunt lupina [wolves’ heads] quae ab omnibus impune poterunt amputari: merito enim sine lege perire debent, qui secundum legem vivere recusant.” Flet. lib. i. cap. 27, § 12, etc.
[490]. Æðelst. i. § 11. Thorpe, i. 204.
[491]. “Ut omnis homo teneat homines suos in fideiussione sua contra omne furtum. Si tunc sit aliquis qui tot homines habeat quod non sufficiat omnes custodire, praeponat sibi singulis villis praepositum unum, qui credibilis sit ei, et qui concredat hominibus. Et si praepositus alicui eorum hominum concredere non audeat, inveniat xii plegios cognationis suae qui ei stent in fideiussione.” Æðelst. ii. § 7. Thorpe, i. 217.