DeDanaan

Filed by Aine MacDermot

section 19

Exempt from liability is every loan, every lease, every sale, every purchase, without mutual defrauding by either, made with the private property of each up to the amount of the honour-price of each, in accordance with the contracting rights of each.

section 20

Hospitality and refection is a duty of each of them according to rank. […] Each of them gives hospitality to his/her own lord, to his/her own church and friends and relations.

section 21

Union on man’s contribution: (2) Union of a woman on a man’s contribution: the man’s contract is a valid contract without the wife’s consent, except for the sale of clothing and food; and the sale of cattle and sheep, if she is a duly contracted wife who is not a cétmuinter. (i.e. given by her family in a marriage based on a marriage contract (airnaidm), but not a cétmuinter.)

section 22

If she is a woman who is a proper cétmuinter, equally good and equally well-bred — for everyone of equal goodness is of equal birth — she impugns all his contracts if they are foolish — for immunity from suit does not attach to defrauding and to what is forcefully protested against — and her sureties annul them.

section 23

If he gives bridewealth to acquire another woman, even from his own private property, that bridewealth is forfeit to his cétmuinter if she carries out her marital obligations. Every secondary wife who comes ‘over the head’ of a cétmuinter is liable to penalty: she pays the honour-price of the cétmuinter.

section 24

The wife gives hospitality to half as many people as her husband, in accordance with the social status of her husband.

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