Reprint of the octavo edition. With indexes and a glossary of Welsh and other terms. This is a scholarly critical edition of early Welsh laws based on original manuscript sources. The texts in Welsh have parallel English translations. Contents include the Vendotian Code, the Dimetian Code, the Gwentian Code, Anomalous Laws, the Leges Howeleis Boni and the Statuta de Rothelan. It remains a standard source for scholars of this period.

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1841 edition. Excerpt: ...come and swear to that loan in the hand of the person to whom the property has been lent; and, upon that, the person, in whose possession the loan is, offer the property to the person who lent it to him; and then the person who lent it say, that Such property never belonged to him, and that he did not lend that property either to him, or to any one: the law says, that it is right for him, in whose possession such property is, to prove that the person from whom he had it lent it to him; and, if the proof succeed, let the other take the loan back, and answer for himself to the person that shall have sworn to it; and let him be liable to the claim. If the person who lent the property, say to him to whom it had been lent: ' God knows, ' says he, ' I do not deny the having lent this to thee, nor its being mine; and, nevertheless, to the law I appeal, that my loan is to return to me, without claim, without sur-claim thereon, in the manner it went from me; and, without claim, without sur-claim, this went out of my possession; and, if thou doubtest that, there are for me enough who know it; and, therefore, I appeal to the law, that I am not to take what is mine from thee, until thou shalt divest it of the claim that is upon it; and, unless thou art able to divest it of the claim that is upon it, I then am entitled to what the law may assign instead of it.' If that be acknowledged by him in whose possession the loan is, it is right for him to free the loan from the claim that is thereon, and to give it to the owner, in as good a state as it came to him. If he deny that, let the proof rest with the owner of the loan; and, if the proof succeed, let the other free the loan to its owner from the claim; and, unless he can free it...