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his father or mother, the offender is fined two 
oxen. 
4. If a man be detected in robbing his neighbour 
of an ox or cow, he is obliged to restore ten for it. 
5. If one be found stealing Guinea corn, carra- 
vances, yams, &c. out of the plantations, he forfeits a 
cow and calf to the owner, or more, in proportion 
to the offence. 
6. If the theft be a hive of honey, the fine is three 
iron shovels. 
7. If one man’s cattle break into another man’s 
plantation, he must give an iron shovel for every beast 
found there. 
8. If a man borrow an ox or cow of his neighbour, 
and the debt remain a year, he pays him six calves 
in return for it. If it remain two years, those calves 
are supposed to be three steers and three heifers, 
which the lender can demand; and so, for every year 
the debt continues uncancelled, the growth and produce 
of the first years demand is the interest awarded to 
him : thus, at the expiration of ten years, they calcu¬ 
late what the three bull-calves and three cow-calves 
would have produced in that time, all which belong to 
the creditor. 
9. If a man be found guilty of adultery with the 
wife of one who is his superior, he forfeits thirty head 
of cattle, and a great quantity of beads and shovels. 
If the parties are of equal rank, the fine is twenty 
beasts; but if with the wife of a king or chief, the 
offending parties are put to death. 
