[147.] Three wealths in barren places: a well in a mountain, fire out of a stone, wealth in the possession of a hard man.
[148.] Three renovators of the world: the womb of woman, a cow's udder, a smith's moulding-block.
[149.] Three concealments upon which forfeiture does not close: a wife's dowry, the food of a married couple, a boy's foster-fee.
150. Three contracts that are reversed by the decision of a judge: the contracts of a woman, of a son, of a cottar.
[151.] Three that are incapable of special contracts[90]: a son whose father is alive, a betrothed woman, the serf of a chief.
[90] Or, 'of contracts on their own behalf.'
152. Three sons that do not share inheritance: a son begotten in a brake,[91] the son of a slave, the son of a girl still wearing tresses.
[91] Cf. the expression meirdrech muine, 'a bush-strumpet,' Laws v. 176, 4.
[153.] Three causes that do not die with neglect: the causes of an imbecile, and of oppression, and of ignorance.
154. Three bloodsheds that need not be impugned: the bloodshed of battle, of jealousy, of mediating.