D54.10.01 If a woman murder her child while it is inside her, or
after
it comes out, with drink or with diverse other things, she is to fast for 10 years, 3 on bread and
water, and 7 as her confessor mercifully prescribes for her, and repent it ever after.
D54.11.01 If someone kill his servant without fault out of anger,
he is to fast 3 years.
D54.12.01 If a woman strikes her servant because of some vile
enmity and she dies from that (blow) and she is innocent, the woman is to fast 3 years and repent
her misdeed ever after.
D54.13.01 If a man intentionally slay himself with a weapon or at
some kind of demonic instigation, it is not permitted that one should sing mass for such a man,
nor to commit that body to earth with any psalm singing, nor to bury the body in a consecrated
(purified) cemetery.
D54.13.02 One must reach the same judgment for him who loses his
life in punishment of his offenses--that is, for the thief, the murderer, or betrayer of his lord.
D54.14.01 If anyone is polluted by an animal or if a male person
(is
polluted by) another, if he is 20 years old, he is to fast 15 years; and if the man has a spouse, and
he is 40 years old and does such a thing, he must cease doing it and fast for as long as he lives,
nor should he presume to receive the body of the Lord before the day of his death.
D54.14.02 Young men and foolish men are to be severely whipped
if
they do such things.
D54.15.01 If one commits adultery he is to fast for 7 years,
3 days each week on bread and water, be it woman or man.
D54.16.01 Whoever breaks his vow and takes another wife,
he is an adulterer. One is not to give him any of the rites that pertain to Christian men, neither in
death nor in life, nor is one to bury him with Christian men. And likewise for the woman. And
the kin who were (part of) that arrangement are to suffer the same judgment unless they soon
wish to turn back (i.e., change their minds) and earnestly repent.
D54.17.01 Whoever has a lawful spouse and also a concubine, no
priest is to perform Christian rites for him unless he turn to repentance. He is to remain with
one alone, be it the wife or be it the concubine.
D54.17.02 If a man fornicates with another's lawful spouse, or the
wife with another's lawful spouse, he (or she) is to fast 7 years, 3 on bread and water and
4 as his (or her) confessor prescribes for him (or her) to do, and to repent his (or her) misdeeds
ever after.
D54.18.01 If a woman takes 2 brothers as husbands, one after the
other, they are to be separated and they are to repent earnestly for as long as they live, as their
confessor prescribes for them. And at their death the priest is to perform the rites for them as
one
does
for Christians, if they promise that they will do penance for a long time (and) if they are
permitted
to live a long time.
D54.19.01 If someone dwells in such evil kinship until the end of
his
life without any cessation, we do not know how to devise any counsel for him,
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