A slave may fight in his master's quarrel: a father may fight in his son's with any one except with his master.[**] It was enacted by King Ina, that no man should take revenge for an injury till he had first demanded compensation, and had been refused it.[***] [* The addition of these last words is Italics appears necessary from what follows in the same law.] [** IL.AElf.sect.28.Wilkins, p.

43.] [*** LL.

Inae sect.

9] King Edmond, in the preamble to his laws, mentions the general misery occasioned by the multiplicity of private feuds and battles; and he establishes several expedients for remedying this grievance.

He ordains that if any one commit murder, he may, with the assistance of his kindred, pay within a twelvemonth the fine of his crime; and if they abandon him, he shall alone sustain the deadly feud or quarrel with the kindred of the murdered person: his own kindred are free from the feud, but on condition that they neither converse with the criminal, nor supply him with meat or other necessaries: if any of them, after renouncing him, receive him into their house, or give him assistance, they are finable to the king, and are involved in the feud.