Note 38 — Chapter I · PENAL METHODS OF THE MIDDLE AGES
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Dooms of Alfred, sect. 24. “If any one steal another’s ox and slay or sell it, let him give two for it, and four sheep for one. If he have not what he may give be he himself sold for the cattle.”—Thorpe, Laws, fol. ed. p. 23. Compare Exodus xxii. 3; Pollock and Maitland, Hist., ed. 1895, vol. ii. 514.