1. All free-born men are equal, wherefore they must all have equal
rights on sea and land, and on all that Wr-alda has given.
2. Every man may seek the wife of his choice, and every woman may
bestow her hand on him whom she loves.
3. When a man takes a wife, a house and yard must be given to him. If
there is none, one must be built for him.
4. If he has taken a wife in another village, and wishes to remain,
they must give him a house there, and likewise the free use of
the common.
5. To every man must be given a piece of land behind his house. No
man shall have land in front of his house, still less an enclosure,
unless he has performed some public service. In such a case it may be
given, and the youngest son may inherit it, but after him it returns
to the community.
6. Every village shall possess a common for the general good, and the
chief of the village shall take care that it is kept in good order,
so that posterity shall find it uninjured.
7. Every village shall have a market-place. All the rest of the land
shall be for tillage and forest. No one shall fell trees without the
consent of the community, or without the knowledge of the forester;
for the forests are general property, and no man can appropriate them.
8. The market charges shall not exceed one-twelfth of the value of
the goods either to natives or strangers. The portion taken for the
charges shall not be sold before the other goods.
9. All the market receipts must be divided yearly into a hundred
parts three days before the Juul-day.
10. The Grevetman and his council shall take twenty parts; the keeper
of the market ten, and his assistants five; the Volksmoeder one,
the midwife four, the village ten, and the poor and infirm shall have
fifty parts.