Property, labour, and produce

One colony. Several lawful claims.

The sources preserve several different division rules. Compare them without collapsing Appendix 5, dignitary cases, boundary law, and neighbour gratuities into one formula.

Supplementary tract

Care, bees, and land each account for one third

Appendix 5, Caithchi bech, gives a competing solution to bee trespass. At honey-taking, the produce is divided into three legal accounts—not three modern people or institutions.

Evidence boundary

This rule comes from Appendix 5’s separate trespass text, which the editors say takes the opposite approach to the main Bechbretha tract.

Appendix 5 (f)–(h), printed p. 187

Compare every attested scenario