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In the early days when the Great West of the United States was just being opened up and when society there was in a very crude state, a horse thief was regularly hanged; but murder was hardly a fault. Lex Burgundionum, 47, 1 and 2. The guilty man was put to death. Lex Salica, Tit., 23. Id, Tit., 28. Lex Baiuvariorum, Tit., xiii, 2.

Et tunc ille, qui viduam accipere vult, cum tribus testibus qui adprobare debent, tres solidos aeque pensantes, et denarium habere debet, etc. Leges Liutprandi, ii, 1. Lex Wisigothorum, iii, 1, 2 and 3, and iii, 6, 3. E.g., 62 solidi by the Salic law, Tit., 70. See also Lex Baiuvariorum, Tit., vii, 15 and 16 and 17. Lex Alemannorum, 52, i; 53; 54.

Lex Wisigothorum, iv, 2, 7 and 9. Tacitus, Germania, 21. Legis Liutprandi, ii, 7. Lex Wisigothorum, iv, 5, I. Lex Alemannorum, Tit., i. Lex Baiuvariorum, Tit., i. Lex Wisigothorum, iv, 2, 20. Edictum Rotharis, i, 121. Lex Wisigothorum, iv, 2, 13. Cf. Capitula addita ad legem Alemannorum, 29. Lex Saxonum, viii, 2.

Lex Baiuvariorum, xiv, 9, 1. Ibid., xiv, 6. For all this, see Lex Burgundionum, 24 and 62 and 74. Lex Wisigothorum, iv, Tit. 3. Lex Baiuvariorum, 14. Lex Alemannorum, 55 and 56. Lex Wisigothorum, iii, 3, 1. Lex Saxonum, iv.

Kings have always had a little way of doing as they pleased. See the anecdote of King Cusupald in Paulus' Hist. For all this see Lex Burgundionum, 34, 1-4. For all these, see Lex Wisigothorum, iii, 6, 1 and 2. Capitula Addita ad Legem Alemannorum, 30. Lex Baiuvariorum, vii, 14. Lex Ripuariorum, Tit., 35. Lex Baiuvariorum, vii. Lex Alemannorum, 51, 1.