Title III. Concerning Thefts of Cattle
4. If any one steal that bull which rules the herd and never has been yoked, he shall
be sentenced to 1800 denars, which make 45 shillings.
5. But if that bull is used for the cows of three villages in common, he who stole him
shall be sentenced to three times 45 shillings.
6. If any one steal a bull belonging to the king he shall be sentenced to 3600
denars, which make 90 shillings. [Compare this to title xxiv below]
Title XI Concerning Thefts or Housebreakings of Freemen
1. If any freeman steal, outside of the house, something worth 2 denars, he shall be
sentenced to 600 denars, which make 15 shillings.
5. But if he have broken, or tampered with, the lock, and thus have entered the
house and stolen anything from it, he shall be senteiiced, besides the worth
of the object and the fines for delay, to 1800 denars, which make 45 shillings.
6. And if he have taken nothing, or have escaped by flight, he shall, for the
housebreaking alone, be sentenced to 1200 denars, which make 30 shillings.
Title XIII. (Rape Committed by Freemen
1 .If three men carry off a free born girl, they shall be compelled to pay 30
shillings.
2. If there are more than three, each one shall pay five shillings.
4. But those who commit rape shall be compelled to pay 2500 denars, which make
63 shillings.
6. But if the girl who is carried off be under the king's protection then the "firth" (peace-money)
shall be 2500 denars, which make 63 shillings.
Title XIV. Concerning Assault and Robbery
1 . If any one have assaulted and plundered a freeman, and it be proved on
him, he shall be sentenced to 2500 denars, which make 63 shillings.
2. If a Roman have plundered a Salian Frank, the above law shall be ordered.
3. But if a Frank have plundered a Roman, he shall be sentenced to 35 shillings.
Title XVII. Concerning Wounds
1. If any one have wished to kill another person, and the blow have missed,
he on whom it was proved shall be sentenced to 2500 denars, which make 63 shillings.
2. If any person have wished to strike another with a poisoned arrow, and the arrow have
glanced aside, and it shall be proved on him: he shall be sentenced to 2500 denars, which
make 63 shillings.
3. If any person strike another on the head so that the brain appears, and the
three bones which lie above the brain shall project, he shall be sentenced to
1200 denars, which make 30 shillings.
Title XXIV. Concerning the Killing of Little Children and Women
1. If any one have slain a boy under 10 years-up to the end of the tenth-and it shall
have been proved on him, he shall be sentenced to 24000 denars, which make 600 shillings.
3. If any one have hit a free woman who is pregnant, and she dies, he shall be sentenced
to 28000 denars, which makes 700 shillings.
6. If any one have killed a free woman after she has begun bearing children, he shall be
sentenced to 24000 denars, which make 600 shillings.
7. After she can have no more children, he who kills her shall be sentenced to 8000
denars, which make 200 shillings.
Title XXX. Concerning Insults
3. If any one, man or woman, shall have called a woman harlot, and a not have been able
to prove it, he shall be sentenced to 1800 denars, which make 45 shillings.
4. If any person shall have called another "fox," he shall be sentenced to 3
shillings.
5. If any man shall have called another "hare," he shall be sentenced to 3
shillings.
Title XLI Concerning the Murder of Freemen
1. If any one shall have killed a free Frank, or a barbarian living under
the Salic law, and it have been proved on him, he shall be sentenced to 8000
denars.
5. If any one have slain a Roman who eats in the king's palace, and it have been proved on
him, he shall be sentenced to 12000 denars, which make 300 shillings.
6. But if the Roman shall not have been a landed proprietor and table companion of the
king, he who killed him shall be sentenced to 4000 denars, which make 100 shillings.
Title LVII. Conceming the "Chrenecruda "
1. If any one have killed a man, and, having given up all his property, has
not enough to comply with the full terms of the law, he shall present 12 sworn
witnesses to the effect that, neither above the earth nor under it, has he
any more property than he has already given,
3. But if he also have not enough to pay the whole, then he who has charge of the murderer
shall bring him before the "Thing," and afterwards to 4 Things, in order that
they (his friends) may take him under their protection. And if no one have taken him under
his protection-that is, so as to redeem him for what he can not pay-then he shall have to
atone with his life.
Title LIX. Concerning Private Property
1. If any man die and leave no sons, if the father and mother survive, they
shall inherit.
6. But of Salic land no portion of the inheritance shall
come to a woman: but the whole inheritance of the land shall come to the male
sex.
Title LXII. Concerning Wergeld
1. If any one's father have been killed, the sons shall have half the compounding
money (wergeld); and the other half the nearest relatives, as well on the mother's
as on the father's side, shall divide among themselves.
2. But if there are no relatives, paternal or maternal, that portion shall go to the fisc.
from "The Salic Law," in Ernest F. Henderson, Select Historical Documents of the Middle Ages, (London: George Bell and Sons, 1910), pp. 176-189