Ancient Laws of Ireland - Volume 1: Senchus Mor

461, 17, the respective value of the oaths of the lower and higher grades; 463, 1, the tribe-land to be kept freed from illegalities by building on it, or sale of it, etc.; 463, 22, distraints The seizure of goods for debt to be properly carried out; 465, 9, illegalities by trespass of cattle in co-tenancies, etc.; 467, 1, penalties incurred thereby; 469, 1, oaths and swearing tests; 471, 38, pagan and Christian; 473, 31, a series of dicta on equal-dire Honour-price/fine for animals; 475, 1, the normal fine of five seds for various offenses of appropriation of materials, etc.; 477, 27, for over-use of loans, over-driving of cattle, etc.; 479, 1, enjoined by St. Patrick, to secure that no one should make use of what was not his own. The succeeding entry, 481, 8, discusses the cases where no litigation is permitted, as between certain correlatives—son and father, church and monks, etc.—and the Tract ends with what is apparently an enumeration of objects that are up to a certain extent free to all—objects that the tribesman could make use of without liability to prosecution.

V. ON THE REMOVAL OF COVENANTS.

A brief Tract on certain rights of property. Here too, there is reference made to certain Triads (e.g., the three lec-stones binding a possession, 499, 1, 13; three lands that cannot be sold legally, 511, 1; three husbands whose contracts can be impugned by their wives, 517, 5); but the main object of the Tract seems to be the consideration of the bars [fal]; as the gloss puts it, the barrier, "the fence [ime] which the man makes who purchases the land for a small price" (cf. the discussion on p. 505); the bar of a tribesman, 501, 11; of a Nemed A privileged or noble person, 507, 14; of an infant [minor], 509, 22, which seemingly has brought about the lands-triad, 511, 6. The Tract ends with some notices of the rights and status of the fuidir-tenant A tenant of lower status and his family; of the particular five-house fuidir, 515, 21; of his honour-price, 517, 1; 519, 17; his relations with his flaith Lord or chief, 521, 1.