81. On Deeds of Gift

Where in a case about land two Tsars deeds of gift are presented, the land shall be of the one who holds it now, up to the time of this Council, and let not the deed of gift be contested.

82. On the Ordeal

For the one who was submitted to the ordeal, there shall be no further trial nor vindication. Whoever vindicates himself shall give no justification to the judges. There shall be no surety in court, and no false accusation and imprisonment for debt. There shall only be trial according to law.

83. On Heretical Utterance

And whose utters a heretical word, if he be noble let him pay 100 perpers, and if he be a commoner, let him pay 12 perpers and be beaten with sticks.

84. On Homicide

Whoever commits homicide without intention and violence, let him pay 300 perpers. If a man kill intentionally, both his hands shall be cut off. And where there is homicide, the one provoking the fight shall be guilty even if he himself be killed.

85. On Surety

When lords are litigating, the one who institutes the lawsuit about something shall give surety.

86. On Summoning

Whoever summons a culprit before the judges and then does not come to court, but stays at home, if the party summoned come at the appointed time before the judges and remain according to law, he shall be free of the guilt for which he was summoned, since that one who summoned him stayed at home.

87. On Pledges

Pledges, wherever they be found, shall be redeemed.

88. On Litigating

When two are litigating, if one of them say: I have an clerk here in the Imperial court, or in the judges court, let him produce him. When he seeks him and finds him not there in the court, let him come forthwith to the court and declare: I have not found the clerk. If he be at dinner time, let him be given time till supper; let him produce him the next day by dinner time. And if the Tsar or the judge have sent that clerk upon some service, the one who had called him shall not be at fault; and a time limit shall be given him till the clerk come, to bring him before the judges.

89. On Recognizing Objects

If anyone recognize an object with another man, and it be in the forest, in the wilderness, let him take him to the nearest village and hand him to that village, and call upon it to deliver him before the judges. If the village do not deliver him before the judges, that village shall pay what the court determine.

90. On Enticing a Man of Another Lord

Whoso enticeth somebody`s man into another`s land, shall return him together with six more.

91. On Homicide

If a lord kill a commoner in a town, or in a district, or in a summer pasture hut, he shall pay one thousand perpers. But if a commoner kill a lord, both his hands shall be cut off and he shall pay 300 perpers.

92. On Insult

Whoso insulteth a bishop, or a monk, or priest, shall pay 100 perpers.

93. On Homicide

Whoso be found to have killed a bishop, or a monk, or priest, let him be killed and hanged.

94.

Whoso be found to have killed his father, or mother, or brother, or his own child, let that murderer be burnt in the fire.

95. On Plucking Beards

Whoso be found to have plucked the beard of a nobleman or of a good man, his hand shall be cut off.

96.

If two commoners pluck each other, the fine shall be 6 perpers.

97. On Arson

If anyone be found who hath set fire to a house, or to a threshing floor, or straw, or hay belonging to another man, out of malice, that incendiary shall be burnt in the fire. If he be not found, let that village hand over the incendiary. And if it hand him not, let that village pay what the incendiary would have paid.

98.

If anyone outside a village set fire to a threshing floor or hay, let the surrounding settlements pay or hand over the incendiary.

99. On Invasion

There shall be no violence against anyone and for anything in the imperial lands. If there happen to him an invasion or unruly force, let all the horses used for invasions be taken away, one half to the Tsar, and the other half to him who was attacked; and the men committing invasion shall be punished as is written in the Law of the Holy Fathers, in the Town Branches; let him be tortured as would a deliberate murderer.

100. On Cautionary Deposit

There shall be no cautionary deposit to anyone and in anything. Whose shall give a cautionary deposit for whatever reason, let him pay sevenfold.

101. On Trial

As to the slaves, they shall be tried before their lords, as they please, for their offenses, but for the imperial ones they shall go before the judges: for bloodshed, for fine, for theft, for brigandage, for harbouring another persons man.

102. On Summoning

And the clerk shall not call upon a wife when the husband is not at home, nor shall a wife be summoned without her husband, but the wife shall give her husband notice to go to court. In that case, the husband shall not be at fault until she give him notice.

103. On Imperial Writs

Imperial writs which are produced before the judges in any matter, and which the Tsar`s Law make invalid; whatever writ the Tsar has issued to anyone, these writs which the court should find invalid, shall be taken by the judges and brought before the Tsar.

104. On Courtiers

Noblemen`s courtiers, if any one of them commit some evil, if he be a commoner, let him seize from the cauldron; if he be a son of a fief-holder let him be judged by a jury of his father`s peers.

105. Of Refusal

Whoso is found to have refused a judges envoy or clerk shall be deprived of his property; all he had shall be taken from him.

106. On Tax on Taking Possession

And on tax on taking possession, let it be thus: the tax on land to the clerk, 3 perpers, on a village, 3 perpers, on a mill, 3 perpers, on a district, 3 perpers on each village, one perper, on a mare, 6 dinars, on a head of cattle, 4 dinars, on a sheep 2 dinars.

107. On Judges

A judge travelling anywhere across imperial lands and in his own area, shall not be authorized to take a meal by force, nor anything else save gifts given him by someone of their free will.

108.

Whoso be found to disgrace a judge, if he be a noble let all be taken from him, and if it be a village - let it be scattered and confiscated.

109. On Prisoners

A man who escapes from imprisonment, with what he came to the imperial court, be he the Tsar`s man, or of the Church, or of a lord, let him be free with that. And whatever he has left with that man from whom he hath escaped, let it belong to the one from whom he hath escaped.

110.

A prisoner kept in the Church court and who escapes to the imperial court, let him be free. Likewise, a prisoner who escapes to the Patriarch`s court, let him be free.

111. On Lords Men

Men who return from an alien country to the imperial land, if any run away from security, those warrantors who have taken over security for such a man shall pay nought.

112.

And whoever has received somebodys man from another land, and this one has fled from his lord, from court, if he produce the Tsar`s letter of mercy, it shall not be annulled. But if he produce no letter of mercy, let him be given back to the one to whom he belong.

113. On Finding

Whoso find anything in the imperial land let him not take it and say: I will return it if anyone recognize. And if he arrogates or takes, let him pay like a thief or robber. But whoever finds anything in a foreign land while in the army, let him bring it before the Tsar and the commanders.

114.

Whatever come to any man in the Tsar`s lands, or out of a town or a district, which before the Tsar took it, until it did not belong to the Tsar, but belonged to some other lord, from that time there shall be no claim, whether of man or of any other right. if it come after the possession has been taken by the Lord Tsar, let it be claimed.

115. On Market

No nobleman or any other man is authorized to hinder by force merchants who travel about the Tsar`s lands, nor seize merchandise and force them to take money. Whosoever shall be found unloading or dispersing by force, shall pay five hundred perpers.

116.

Merchants who trade in scarlet cloth and other necessary small and big merchandise, shall travel over the Tsar`s lands, to sell and buy, however commerce may requre.

117.

A customs officer of the Tsar is not authorized to hinder or to detain any merchant in order to force him to sell his merchandise at a very low price. Everyone is free to travel to all markets, and to move with his merchandise as he wishes. No lord, either small or great, nor any other, may detain or hinder his men or other merchants to go to the markets of the Tsar, but let everyone go freely.

118.

If a lord detain a merchant, let him pay 300 perpers. And if a customs officer detain him, let him pay 300 perpers.

119. On Chrysobulls

Greek towns which the Lord Tsar hath taken, whatsoever chrysobulls and charters have been granted to them by him, whatsoever they possess and hold up to the time of this Council - let them hold it, and let this be confirmed to them and nothing shall be taken from them.

120. On Maintenance

Towns are not liable for maintenance, but everyone who come, shall go to the inn, either small or great shall go the innkeeper; to hand him his horse and all his luggage for the inkeeper to keep it all. And when that guest leave, let the inkeeper hand him all that the guest hath handed him. And if anything be lost to him, let him pay it all.