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But if the felon be indicted, adjudged, or found guilty, 

 or outlawed at the suit of the owner of these goods, he shall 

 have restitution of these goods as before. 



V. By straying. 



By straying property in live cattle is thus gotten. When 

 they come into other men s grounds, straying from the 

 owners, then the party or lord into whose grounds or ma 

 nors they come causeth them to be seized, and a withe put 

 about their necks, and to be cried in three markets adjoin 

 ing, showing the marks of the cattle ; which done, if the 

 true owner claimeth them not within a year and a day, then 

 the property of them is in the lord of the manor whereunto 

 they did stray, if he have all strays by custom or charter, 

 else to the king. 



VI. Wreck, and when it shall be said to be. 



By shipwreck property of goods is thus gotten. When 

 a ship laden is cast away upon the coasts, so that no living 

 creature that was in it when it began to sink escapeth to 

 land with life, then all those goods are said to be wrecked, 

 and they belong to the crown if they be found ; except the 

 lord of the soil adjoining can entitle himself unto them by 

 custom, or by the king s charter. 



VII. Forfeitures. 



By forfeitures goods and chattels are thus gotten. If 

 the owner be outlawed, if he be indicted of felony or trea 

 son, or either confess it, or be found guilty of it, or refuse 

 to be tried by peers or jury, or be attainted by judgment, 

 or fly for felony, although he be not guilty, or suffer the 

 exigent to go forth against him, although he be not out 

 lawed, or that he go over the seas without license, all the 

 goods he had at the judgment he forfeiteth to the crown, 

 except some lord by charter can claim them. For in those 

 cases prescripts will not serve, except it be so ancient, that 

 it hath had allowance before the justices in eyre in their 

 circuits, or in the King s Bench in ancient time. 



VIII. By executorship. 



By executorship goods are gotten. When a man pos 

 sessed of goods maketh his last will and testament in writ 

 ing, or by word, and maketh one or more executors thereof, 



