Note 54 — BOOK XII. CONCERNING THE PREVENTION OF OFFICIAL OPPRESSION, AND THE THOROUGH EXTINCTION OF HERETICAL SECTS.
S. P. (Samuel Parsons) Scott translation
The translator has interpolated between this and the succeeding title, in the Castilian version, another, of nine chapters, under the head of “Concerning insults and opprobrious language.” Part of it relates to false accusations of physical deformity and disease, or slander; part to assault, or attempted assault, where no apparent injury resulted; and the remainder is devoted to laws punishing those who call Christians Saracens, or assert that they have been circumcised. The moderate penalty of a hundred and fifty lashes was prescribed for the last two offences.—[Ed.]