Note 44 — Chapter I · PENAL METHODS OF THE MIDDLE AGES
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Law of Ine, seventh century. “If any one sell his countryman bound or free, though he be guilty, over sea, let him pay for him according to his wer.”—Stubbs, Charters, p. 61. Oxford, 1884.
Law of Æthelred. “Christian men and condemned persons are not to be sold out of the country, at least not into heathen nations.”—Thorpe, fol. ed. p. 135.
A law of William I. was to the same effect.—R. Schmidt, Gesetze, p. 347.