ANCIENT LAW.
VIII. Where Anyone is Caught with a Vehicle, in a Wood Belonging to Another.
If any person should find another in his forest with a vehicle for the purpose of carrying away material for barrel-hoops, or any other kind of wood, without permission, the trespasser shall lose both oxen and vehicle, and the owner shall also be entitled to whatever the thief or trespasser has with him.
ANCIENT LAW.
IX. Concerning the Unreasonable Enclosure of Orchards, Vineyards, and Pastures.
If the owner of a vineyard, meadow, or pasture-field, should surround it with ditches, for the purpose of causing annoyance, and in such a manner that it cannot be crossed, unless through a vineyard or growing crop; anyone who passes through the latter shall not be responsible for any damages resulting therefrom. Where anyone surrounds open fields with ditches, travellers may disregard them, nor shall anyone presume to drive them out of said fields.
ANCIENT LAW.
X. Where Animals are Voluntarily Loosed in Fields where there are Crops, or in Vineyards.
Anyone who shall, intentionally, drive beasts of burden, oxen, or any kind of cattle into a vineyard, or field of growing grain, belonging to another, shall be compelled to pay all damages, after they have been appraised. If he is a person of high rank he shall pay a solidus for every horse, or ox, and for every head of other cattle, a tremisa, to him who has sustained the injury. If he is a person of inferior rank, he shall pay for the property destroyed and one half its value, in addition; and shall receive forty lashes in public. If a slave should commit such an act, without the authority of his master, either he, or his master, must pay all damages incurred, and the slave shall receive sixty lashes.
ANCIENT LAW.