Injury
A person hurt, and what the person who hurt them owed.
The Bee That Blinded a KingA bee blinds a man’s eye, and no one saw which hive it came from. Who answers for it?
Nine Days’ CareA man is wounded in a quarrel and cannot work. Who nurses him, and who pays?
The Smith’s ForgeA boy creeps up to a smith at work and is burned. Does the smith pay?
Words used
- lóg n-enech: The sum a person was owed if wronged or insulted, fixed by their rank. It measured their legal standing as well as their worth: a person with none of their own had no standing in law.
The wider machinery is in How the law worked.
Cases are listed in the order of the book. Each case page says where it comes from.