I.After the Lapse of Fifty Years, Neither Goths nor Romans can Assert a Claim to Property.
II.No Fugitive Slave shall Again be Reduced to Servitude, after the Lapse of Fifty Years.
III.No Suit at Law shall be Brought Thirty Years After the Cause of Action has Arisen.
IV.The Limitation of Thirty Years shall Run in all Cases Excepting those where Slaves of the Crown are Concerned.
V.Concerning Claims made within Thirty Years.
VI.The Limitation of Thirty Years shall not Run while Persons are Exiled.
VII.Within what Time Slaves Belonging to the Crown can Again be Reduced to Slavery.

I. After the Lapse of Fifty Years, Neither Goths nor Romans can Assert a Claim to Property.

Lands apportioned between Goths and Romans, which have not been claimed within fifty years, can under no circumstances be claimed afterwards.

II. No Fugitive Slave shall Again be Reduced to Servitude, after the Lapse of Fifty Years.

Fugitive slaves who have not been found within fifty years, shall not, after that time, be returned to servitude.

III. No Suit at Law shall be Brought Thirty Years After the Cause of Action has Arisen.

All suits at law, whether well founded or not, and also all criminal cases, which shall not have been brought or determined in thirty years; or any disputes relating to the ownership or possession of slaves, which have not been settled within that time, shall under no circumstances be prosecuted afterwards. Where any person attempts to bring a suit thirty years after the cause of action has arisen, he shall be barred by the limitation aforesaid, and shall be compelled to give a pound of gold to whomever the king may direct.

THE GLORIOUS FLAVIUS RECESVINTUS, KING.

IV. The Limitation of Thirty Years shall Run in all Cases, Excepting those where the Slaves of the Crown are Concerned.

Want of care and resolution in an owner often disturbs the rightful possession of property, and what vigilance was not exerted to preserve, illegal license appropriates. The passage of the aforesaid period of thirty years is seen to occur so constantly in human affairs, that now it does not seem to have originated in the institutions of man, but rather to have arisen, in the course of nature, from the affairs themselves; and for this reason, therefore, we hereby decree, for all time hereafter, that if any beneficiary of the king, or any employee of the Crown, except royal slaves, should have held any property belonging to anyone for the space of thirty years, he shall have the right to claim and retain said property for himself, forever; and the demand of no one shall avail against said limitation, after it shall have been legally established.