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&_o genus_fw-la delicti_fw-la 21_o poena_n &_o forisfactio_fw-la non_fw-la una_fw-la eadémque_fw-la erit_fw-la liberalis_fw-la quem_fw-la dani_n ealderman_n ealderman_n vocant_fw-la &_o illiberalis_fw-la domini_fw-la &_o serui_fw-la noti_fw-la &_o ignoti_fw-la nec_fw-la una_fw-la eadémque_fw-la erit_fw-la causarum_fw-la tum_fw-la civilium_fw-la tum_fw-la criminalium_fw-la ferarum_fw-la forestae_fw-la &_o ferarum_fw-la regalium_fw-la viridis_fw-la &_o veneris_fw-la tractatio_fw-la nam_fw-la crimen_fw-la veneris_fw-la ab_fw-la antiquo_fw-la inter_fw-la maiora_fw-la &_o non_fw-la immeritò_fw-la numerabatur_fw-la viridis_fw-la verò_fw-la fractione_n chaceae_fw-la nostrae_fw-la regalis_fw-la excepta_fw-la ita_fw-la pusillum_fw-la &_o exiguum_fw-la est_fw-la quòd_fw-la vix_fw-la earespicit_fw-la nostra_fw-la constitutio_fw-la qui_fw-la in_o hoc_fw-la tamen_fw-la deliquerit_fw-la sit_fw-la criminis_fw-la forestae_fw-la reus_fw-la 22_o si_fw-la libre_fw-la aliquis_fw-la feram_fw-la forestae_fw-la ad_fw-la cursum_fw-la impulerit_fw-la sive_fw-la casu_fw-la sive_fw-la praehabita_fw-la voluntate_fw-la ita_fw-la ut_fw-la cursu_fw-la celeri_fw-la cogatur_fw-la fera_fw-fr anhelare_fw-la decem_fw-la solidis_fw-la regi_fw-la emendet_fw-la si_fw-la illiberalis_fw-la dupliciter_fw-la emendet_fw-la si_fw-la seruus_fw-la careat_fw-la corio_fw-la 23_o si_fw-la vero_fw-la harum_fw-la aliquot_fw-la interfecerit_fw-la soluat_fw-la dupliciter_fw-la &_o persoluat_fw-la sitque_fw-la pretij_fw-la svi_fw-la reus_fw-la contra_fw-la regem_fw-la 24_o sed_fw-la si_fw-la regalem_fw-la feram_fw-la stag_n quam_fw-la angli_fw-la staggon_fw-mi appellant_n alteruter_fw-la coegerit_fw-la anhelare_fw-la alter_fw-la per_fw-la unum_fw-la annum_fw-la alter_fw-la per_fw-la dvos_fw-la careat_fw-la libertate_fw-la naturali_fw-la si_fw-la verò_fw-la seruus_fw-la pro_fw-la utlegato_fw-la habeatur_fw-la quem_fw-la angli_fw-la frendlesman_n vocant_fw-la frendlesman_n 25_o si_fw-la verò_fw-la occiderit_fw-la amittat_fw-la libre_fw-la scutum_fw-la libertatis_fw-la si_fw-la sit_fw-la illiberalis_fw-la careat_fw-la libertate_fw-la si_fw-la seruus_fw-la vita_fw-la 26_o episcopi_fw-la abbate_n &_o barone_n mei_fw-la non_fw-la calumniabuntur_fw-la pro_fw-la venatione_fw-la si_fw-la non_fw-la regales_fw-la feras_fw-la occiderint_fw-la &_o siregale_n restabunt_fw-la rei_fw-la regi_fw-la pro_fw-la libito_fw-la svo_fw-la sine_fw-la certa_fw-la emendatione_fw-la 27_o sunt_fw-la aliae_fw-la praeter_fw-la feras_fw-la forestae_fw-la bestlae_fw-la quae_fw-la dum_fw-la inter_fw-la septa_fw-la &_o sepe_v forestae_fw-la continentur_fw-la emendationi_fw-la fubiacent_a quales_fw-la sunt_fw-la capreoli_fw-la lepores_fw-la &_o cuniculi_fw-la sunt_fw-la &_o alia_fw-la quà m_fw-la plurima_fw-la animalia_fw-la quae_fw-la quamquam_fw-la infra_fw-la septa_fw-la forestae_fw-la viwnt_fw-la &_o oneri_fw-la &_o curae_fw-la mediocrium_fw-la subiacent_a forestae_fw-la tamen_fw-la nequaquam_fw-la 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