TITLE III. CONCERNING APPROPRIATORS AND KIDNAPPERS OF SLAVES.
| I. | Where Anyone Seizes the Slave of Another. |
| II. | Where a Freeman is Convicted of Having Stolen the Male or Female Slave of Another. |
| III. | Concerning Kidnapped Children of Freeborn Persons. |
| IV. | Where one Slave Kidnaps Another Belonging to a Person not his Master. |
| V. | Where a Slave, at the Command of his Master, Kidnaps a Freeborn Person. |
| VI. | Where a Slave, without the Knowledge of his Master, Kidnaps a Freeborn Person. |
THE GLORIOUS FLAVIUS RECESVINTUS, KING.
I. Where Anyone Seizes the Slave of Another.
If any freeborn person should seize and appropriate a slave belonging to another, he shall be compelled to give to the master another slave, of equal value, by way of restitution. If a slave should commit this offence, he must return the slave whom he has seized to the master of the same, and he shall then receive a hundred lashes. If the slave that was seized cannot be produced in court, the master must give another slave, of equal value, to him who sustained the loss; to be kept by him until the slave who was carried off is restored, when the other slave, who was surrendered in his place, shall be returned to his own master.
FLAVIUS RECESVINTUS, KING.
II. Where a Freeman is Convicted of Having Stolen the Male or Female Slave of Another.
If a freeman should kidnap the male or female slave of another, he shall be compelled to give, by way of reparation, four slaves of the same sex to the master or mistress of said slave, and shall receive a hundred lashes in public; and if he should not have the property wherewith to make restitution, he himself shall be reduced to slavery.
ANCIENT LAW.
III. Concerning Kidnapped Children of Freeborn Persons.