Topics

The same rule turns up in several cases. Each topic gathers the cases that share one.

• NeighboursMost quarrels in these cases are between people who farmed next to each other: a tree, a fence, a swarm, a dog. 6 cases.
• TreesThe cases begin with a felled oak and follow trees onto a neighbour’s ground and into accidents. 3 cases.
• Animals on other people’s groundOxen, pigs, dogs and a tame wolf, and who answered for the harm they did. 4 cases.
• BeesBees were farm property, and the law had a text of its own for them. 2 cases.
• InjuryA person hurt, and what the person who hurt them owed. 3 cases.
• AccidentsHarm that no one meant: a fall, a falling tree, a ferry, a game. 5 cases.
• DistraintHow a creditor could enforce a debt by taking goods, and where the law set limits on it. 3 cases.
• DebtBeing owed, and what the law let you do about it. 3 cases.
• HonourThe law of honour-price, and what could be done to it. 2 cases.