Interesting law code:

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Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 15:52:15 EST


Insults (Title 30)

from: From Roman to Merovingian Gaul, A Reader- edited by Alexander Murray; ISBN 1551111020

  1. If someone calls another a queer, let the offender be judged liable for 15 solidi.
  2. If someone declares another to be full of shit, let the offender be judged liable for 120 denarii, which amounts to 3 solidi.
  3. If someone, man or woman, declares another free woman to be a whore and cannot prove it, let the offender be judged liable for 1800 denarii, which amounts to 45 solidi.
  4. If someone declares another to be a fox, let the offender be judged liable for 3 solidi.
  5. If someone declares another to be a hare, let the offender be judged liable for 120 denarii, which amounts to 3 solidi.
  6. If someone charges another with throwing away his shield and cannot prove it, let the offender be judged liable for 120 denarii, which amounts to 3 solidi.
  7. If someone declares another to be an informer or calumniator and cannot prove it, let the offender be judged liable for 600 denarii, which amounts to 15 solidi.

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