Lex Codex Edmundtus Scholztus
Commands I.
1. If anyone summons a man before the magistrate, he must go. If the man summoned does not go, let the one summoning him call the bystanders to witness and then take him by force.
2. If he shirks or runs away, let the summoner lay hands on him.
6-9. When the litigants settle their case by compromise, let the magistrate announce it. If they do not compromise, let them state each his own side of the case, in the comitium of the forum before noon. Afterwards let them talk it out together, while both are present. After noon, in case either party has failed to appear, let the magistrate pronounce judgment in favor of the one who is present. If both are present the trial may last until sunset but no later.
10. If a magic wielder casts a spell on the day of the
trail, let the judgement favor the other.
12. Any crime is a crime against the publicus. The
publicus anger before the deus must be feed.
22. vetus quædam depositio pecuniæ, cujus non extat memoria, ut jam dominum
..nonhabeat" (an ancient deposit of money, of which no memory exists, so that it has no present
owner).[12]
2. He whose witness has failed to appear may summon him by loud calls before his house every third day.
3. Spells may not be cast within the halls of government by any who is not of higher office or a virgin.
14. Spells may not be cast one week before a vote, nor one day after the vote. On a first insult of the people, 900 coins. On a second, the removal of two fingers, on the third, the removal of the tongue. On the forth or more all 3 punishments if still possible. If not possible banishment from the city.
25. Anyone healed by magic, on that day, must give 100 coins to the public for each greater glyph in the incantation. If he can not pay, he must serve the city in an errand of not great hardship.
Commands III.
1. One who has confessed a debt, or against whom judgment has been pronounced, shall have thirty days to pay it in. After that forcible seizure of his person is allowed. The creditor shall bring him before the magistrate. Unless he pays the amount of the judgment or some one in the presence of the magistrate interferes in his behalf as protector the creditor so shall take him home and fasten him in stocks or fetters. He shall fasten him with not less than fifteen pounds of weight or, if he choose, with more. If the prisoner choose, he may furnish his own food. If he does not, the creditor must give him a pound of meal daily; if he choose he may give him more.
3. Against a foreigner the right in property shall be valid forever.
Commands IV.
1. A dreadfully deformed child shall be quickly killed.
2. If a father sell his son three times, the son shall be free from his father.
5. A child born after ten months since the father's death will not be admitted into a legal inheritance.
16. The walking dead may not have legal inheritance.
17. If a father turn into the walking dead he still has the right to kill his family.
18. A father is cursed so he may not talk, may be declared dead after 3 years, but shall he be blessed then he gains all his rights and life before the law, unless he be cursed for longer than 50 years.
Commands V.
1. Females should remain in guardianship even when they have attained their majority.
25. On the 3rd day of the 3rd month of the 3rd years (sic) a Female of the holy name of Candlia shall be allowed to enter the 10 forbidden places without penalty, and if returning from all ten be given the right of virgins ever more, and if not a citizen be made a citizen.
27. If a female shall charm another without their permission, the guardian will be fined 200 coins. On the 4th offense the female shall be sold unto slavery
Commands VI.
1. When one makes a bond and a conveyance of property, as he has made formal declaration so let it be binding.
Commands VII.
1. Let them keep the road in order. If they have not paved it, a man may drive his team where he likes.
9. Should a tree on a neighbor's farm be bent crooked by the wind and lean over your farm, you may take legal action for removal of that tree.
10. A man might gather up fruit that was falling down onto another man's farm.
Commands VIII.
2. If one has maimed a limb and does not compromise with the injured person, let there be retaliation. If one has broken a bone of a freeman with his hand or with a cudgel, let him pay a penalty of three hundred coins. If he has broken the bone of a slave, let him have one hundred and fifty coins. If one is guilty of insult, the penalty shall be twenty-five coins.
3. If one is slain while committing theft by night, he is rightly slain.
4. If a patron shall have devised any deceit against his client, let him be accursed.
15. .If a spell wielder shall have devised any deceit against his client, let him be accursed.
16, If one is slain while casting a
spell by night, he is rightly slain.
27. Any person killing a priest within
a temple shall be given to the temple as a sacrifice, and the family
of the person shall be made slaves of the temple for 666 years.
10. Any person who destroys by burning any building or heap of corn deposited alongside a house shall be bound, scourged, and put to death by burning at the stake provided that he has committed the said misdeed with malice aforethought; but if he shall have committed it by accident, that is, by negligence, it is ordained that he repair the damage or, if he be too poor to be competent for such punishment, he shall receive a lighter punishment.
13. Any person who casts a spell of fire within the city shall be bound, scourged, and put to death by burning at the stake provided that he has committed the said misdeed with malice aforethought; but if he shall have committed it by accident, that is, by negligence, it is ordained that he repair the damage or, if he be too poor to be competent for such punishment, he shall receive a lighter punishment.
22 Any person form device or spell summons a water elemental within the city shall be chained and thrown into the ocean for a period of 30 days.
23. A person who had been found guilty of giving false witness shall be hurled down from White Plume Mountain or feed to (the law is unclear here)
26. No person shall hold meetings by night in the city.
Commands IX.
4. The penalty shall be capital for a judge or arbiter legally appointed who has been found guilty of receiving a bribe for giving a decision.
5. Treason: he who shall have roused up a public enemy or handed over a citizen to a public enemy must suffer capital punishment.
6. Putting to death of any man, whosoever he might be unconvicted is forbidden.
Commands X.
1. None is to bury or burn a corpse in the city.
2. Undead shall not rise up within the city walls.
3. The women shall not tear their faces nor wail on account of the funeral.
8. One may destroy but not burn the walking dead within the city walls.
Commands XI.
1. Marriages should not take place between plebeians and patricians.
2. The rights of patricians can only be given up by the consent of the patrician, never removed by law.
3. A patrician that refuses to suffer a just punishment because he is a patrician shall be sent from the city walls for 10 years, and shall he return he will be cursed and killed, and cursed again.
Commands XII.
5. Whatever the people had last ordained should be held as binding by law.
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