 If a man from afar, or a stranger, travels through a wood off the highway and neither shouts nor blows a horn, he shall be assumed to be a thief, and as such may be either slain or put to ransom.  The Laws of the Earliest English Kings - Page 41by Great Britain, Frederick Levi Attenborough - 1922 - 256 pagesFull view - About this book
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...states that a stranger who travels through a forest off the highway and does not shout or blow a horn shall be assumed to be a thief and as such may be either slain or put to ransom. The same code lays down penalties for setting fire to a tree in a forest, for felling a large number... | |
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