Chapter VIII: Book VII: Concerning Theft and Fraud

TITLE I.--_Concerning Informers of Theft._

I. Concerning Informers and Persons who give Information
of Theft 233

II. A Slave, Acting as Informer, must not be Believed,
unless the Testimony of his Master is also Given 234

III. Where the Informer Knew of the Commission of the
Theft 284

IV. Concerning the Compensation of an Informer 235

V. Where an Innocent Person is Accused of Crime by an
Informer 235

TITLE II.--_Concerning Thieves and Stolen Property._

I. He who is Searching for Stolen Property must Describe
it 238

II. Where a Slave Commits a Theft Before or After he
has Received his Freedom 238

III. Where a Slave, who has Become the Property of
Another Master, Commits an Unlawful Act 238

IV. Where a Freeman Commits a Theft in Company with
the Slave of Another Person 239

V. Where a Master Commits a Theft in Company with his
Slave 239

VI. Where a Slave, Belonging to Another Person, is
Instigated by Anyone to the Commission of
Unlawful Acts 239

VII. Concerning Those who Knowingly Associate with
Thieves 240

VIII. Where Anyone, Ignorantly, Buys Stolen Property of a
Thief 240

IX. Where Anyone, Knowingly, Buys Stolen Property of a
Thief 241

X. Concerning Money, and Other Property, Stolen from
the King 241

XI. Concerning the Stealing of Bells from Cattle 241

XII. Concerning the Theft of Mill Machinery 242

XIII. Concerning the Punishment of a Thief 242

XIV. A Thief, when Taken, shall be Brought Before the
Judge; and Where a Freeman Commits a Theft in
Company with a Slave, Both shall Undergo the
Same Penalty 242

XV. Where a Thief, Defending Himself with a Sword, is
Killed 243

XVI. Where a Thief is Killed at Night, while he is Being
Taken 243

XVII. Concerning Property Injured or Destroyed; and the
Reparation to be Made for what has been Damaged
or Stolen 243

XVIII. Concerning Property Rescued from Shipwreck 243

XIX. Concerning the Property and the Heirs of Thieves 244

XX. Concerning Those who Rescue Thieves and Other
Criminals, after their Capture 244

XXI. Where a Slave Steals from his Master, or from a
Fellow-Slave 245

XXII. Within what Time, after his Arrest, a Thief must be
Brought Before the Judge 245

XXIII. Where Anyone Secretly Kills an Animal Belonging to
Another 246

TITLE III.--_Concerning Appropriators and Kidnappers
of Slaves._

I. Where Anyone Seizes the Slave of Another 247

II. Where a Freeman is Convicted of Having Stolen the
Male or Female Slave of Another 247

III. Concerning Kidnapped Children of Freeborn Persons 248

IV. Where one Slave Kidnaps Another Belonging to a
Person not his Master 248

V. Where a Slave, at the Command of his Master, Kidnaps
a Freeborn Person 249

VI. Where a Slave, without the Knowledge of his Master,
Kidnaps a Freeborn Person 249

TITLE IV.--_Concerning the Custody and Sentence of
Condemned Persons._

I. Where a Judge is Asked to Punish Crime, and is
Afterwards Treated with Contempt 250

II. The Governor of the City shall Aid the Judge in the
Arrest of Persons Accused of Crime 250

III. Where a Person Breaks out of Prison, or Influences the
Jailer for that Purpose 251

IV. Concerning the Compensation which may be Received
from those in Custody 251

V. Where a Judge who is Lenient to Offenders Against
the Law, Releases a Criminal 252

VI. Concerning the Punishment of a Judge who Improperly
Discharges a Criminal 252

VII. A Person Guilty of Crime shall receive the Sentence of
the Law not Secretly, but in Public 252

TITLE V.--_Concerning Forgers of Documents._

I. Concerning Those who Forge Royal Orders and Mandates 253

II. Concerning Those who Forge Documents, or Attempt
to Forge Them 254

III. Concerning Those who Forge, or Serve, False Orders in
the Name of the King, or a Judge 255

IV. Concerning Those who Falsify a Will against the Consent
of a Party while Living, or Disclose the Contents
of the Same 256

V. Concerning Those who Attempt to Forge, or Conceal,
the Will of a Person Already Deceased 256

VI. Where Anyone Assumes a Fictitious Name, or Adopts
a False Lineage or Relationship 256

VII. Concerning Documents Fraudulently Dated, Prior to
their Execution 257

VIII. Concerning Later Documents Fraudulently Executed 258

IX. Concerning those who Falsely Write, or Publish,
Decrees and Edicts of the King 259

TITLE VI.--_Concerning Counterfeiters of Metals._

I. Concerning the Torture of Slaves, in Order to Convict
their Masters of Counterfeiting Money; and the
Reward of Witnesses who have given Information
of the Same 261

II. Concerning Those who Debase _Solidi_, or Other Coins 261

III. Concerning Those who Debase Gold by a Mixture of
Other Metals 262

IV. Where Artificers of Metals are Found to have Abstracted
a Portion of what was Entrusted to Them 262

V. No One shall Refuse to Accept a Golden _Solidus_ of
Legal Weight 262