I.Where a Judge is Asked to Punish Crime, and is afterwards Treated with Contempt.
II.The Governor of the City shall Aid the Judge in the Arrest of Persons Accused of Crime.
III.Where a Person Breaks out of Prison, or Influences the Jailer for that Purpose.
IV.Concerning the Compensation which may be Received from those in Custody.
V.Where a Judge who is Lenient to Offenders against the Law, Releases a Criminal.
VI.Concerning the Punishment of a Judge who Improperly Discharges a Criminal.
VII.A Person Guilty of Crime shall Receive the Sentence of the Law not Secretly, but in Public.

THE GLORIOUS FLAVIUS RECESVINTUS, KING.

I. Where a Judge is Asked to Punish Crime, and is afterwards Treated with Contempt.

If anyone should accuse another of theft, before a judge, and should afterwards be guilty of contempt of court, by accepting anything from the thief by way of compensation, without the judge’s knowledge, he shall be compelled to pay five solidi to the judge, on account of his insolence. Where a slave, without the knowledge of his master, is guilty of this offence, he shall receive a hundred lashes, and his master shall incur no liability whatever, on account of his act. But if he should do this with the consent of his master, the latter shall be compelled to pay the sum hereinbefore mentioned.

ANCIENT LAW.

II. The Governor of the City shall Aid the Judge in the Arrest of Persons Accused of Crime.

Whenever a Goth, or anyone else, is accused of crime, the judge must use every effort to arrest him. If, however, the judge himself is not sufficiently powerful to apprehend and imprison him, he may apply to the governor of the city for assistance, to effect what his authority of itself is not sufficient to accomplish. The aforesaid governor must immediately employ all his power to that end, in order that a person guilty of crime may not defy the law.

ANCIENT LAW.

III. Where a Person Breaks out of Prison, or Influences the Jailer for that Purpose.

If anyone should break out of prison, or should use undue influence upon the turnkey, or upon the jailer himself, or upon any keeper who has charge of prisoners, by means of which any prisoner should be unlawfully released, without the order of the judge; he shall suffer the same punishment which the escaped or liberated prisoner himself would have suffered.