An exchange, if not made under fear or force, shall have the same validity as a purchase.
ANCIENT LAW.
II. If the Vendor is not a Person of Good Character, he must give a Surety.
If the vendor is not a person of highly respectable character, he shall give a freeborn bondsman as surety to the purchaser, and the sale shall then be valid.
ANCIENT LAW.
III. Any Sale made under Compulsion shall be Void.
Any sale evidenced by an instrument in writing shall be perfectly valid. If there should be no written evidence of it, and it should be proved that the price was paid in the presence of witnesses, the purchase shall be legal. A sale shall be void in case it was extorted by violence or fear.
ANCIENT LAW.
IV. In Case the Price should not be Paid, after Earnest Money has been Given.
He who receives earnest money for the sale of anything, can be forced to fulfil his contract. But if the purchaser, either through sickness or unavoidable necessity, cannot be present upon the designated day, he may appoint any one he chooses to pay the price at the time agreed upon. But where he himself is not present, or does not appoint any one to act for him, he shall only be entitled to receive the earnest money which he gave, and the contract shall be cancelled.