Note 162 — Chapter VII · TRIBAL CUSTOMS OF THE TRIBES CONQUERED BY CHARLEMAGNE.

It is true that in the clauses trebling the amounts for wounds it is not directly stated that the wergelds were also trebled; but the use of the words in Tit. I., ‘in simplo,’ suggests that it may have been so; whilst the facts that the triple payment for the loss, e.g. of the eye, which in the title De Dolg was a half wergeld, would otherwise exceed the full wergeld, and that, in the one case in which in the ‘De Dolg’ the whole wergeld was payable, the amount in the Additio is the treble wergeld, make it almost certain that it was so, otherwise the injury would be paid for at three times the value of a man’s life.