*In Wessex and Mercia, the king is entitled to payments for violation of his mund, attacks on people's houses, assault, and neglecting military service. In the Danelaw, he is entitled to payments for fighting, breach of the peace and attacks on people's houses, and neglect of military service.

*If anyone does the deed of an outlaw, the king alone shall have power to grant him security. He shall forfeit all his land to the king without regard to whose vassal he is. Whoever feeds or harbours the fugitive shall pay 5 pounds to the king, unless he clears himself by a declaration that he did not know that he was a fugitive.

*He who promotes injustice or pronounces unjust judgments, as a result of malice or bribery, shall forfeit 120s. to the king, in districts under English law, unless he declares on oath that he did not know how to give a more just verdict, and he shall lose forever his rank as a thegn, unless he redeem it from the king, provided the latter is willing to allow him to do so. In the Danelaw he shall forfeit his lahslit.

*He who refuses to observe just laws and judgments shall forfeit, in districts under English law, a fine to the party entitled thereto - either 120s. to the king, 60s. to the earl, or 30s. to the hundred, or to all of them if they were all concerned.

*If a man seeks to accuse another man falsely in such a way as to injure him in property or in reputation, and if the latter can refute the accusation brought against him, the first shall forfeit his tongue, unless he redeems himself with his wergeld.

No one shall appeal to the king, unless he fails to obtain justice within his hundred. Everyone shall attend the hundred court, under pain of fine, whenever he is required by law to attend it.

The borough court shall be held at least three times and the shire court at least twice, under pain of fine. The bishop of the diocese and the earldorman shall attend and they shall direct the administration of both ecclesiastical and secular law.

*No one shall make distraint [seizure of personal property out of the possession of an alleged wrongdoer into the custody of the party injured, to procure a satisfaction for a wrong committed] of property either within the shire or outside it, until he has appealed for justice three times in the hundred court. If on the third occasion he does not obtain justice, he shall go on the fourth occasion to the shire court, and the shire court shall appoint a day when he shall issue his summons for the fourth time. And if this summons fails, he shall get leave from the one court or the other, to take his own measures for the recovery of his property.

*Every freeman over age 12 must be in a tithing if he desires to have the right of exculpation and of being atoned for by the payment of his wergeld, if he is slain, and to be entitled to the rights of a freeman, whether he has an establishment of his own or is in the service of another. Everyone shall be brought within a hundred and under surety, and his surety shall hold and bring him to the performance of every legal duty.

*Everyone over age 12 shall take an oath that he will not be a thief or a thief's accomplice.