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| | kiev law (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30) |
 | | [Iaroslav's Pravda:] ARTICLE I. If a man kills a man [the following relatives of the murdered man may avenge him]: the brother is to avenge his brother; the son, his father; or the father, his son; and the son of the brother [of the murdered man] or the son of his sister [their respective uncle]. |
 | | And after Iaroslav his sons, Iziaslav, Sviatoslav, and Vsevolod, and their councillors, Kosniachko Pereneg and Nikifor, met in a conference and canceled the [custom] of blood revenge, and [instead ordered] composition of [the crime] by money. |
 | | [Prince] Iaroslav ordered [to allow him] to kill the offender, but his sons, after their father's death, ordered the matter to be settled with the alternative of payment: either to bind the slave [to a post] and beat him, or to accept 1 grivna for the offense to his honor. |
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