Keeper rights
The hive keeps its produce under the first year of immunity.
Neighbour claims
The four nearest holdings have no ordinary claim to the hive's produce yet.
Liability and exceptions
Immunity is not absolute: reparation for injury and specified sickness-related claims remain possible.
Swarms and distribution
No ordinary neighbour swarm gratuity is due during this year.
New hives and neighbours
Three years of immunity. Then the reckoning begins.
Follow a newly established hive through the tract's year of origin, scarcity, and multiplying. The four tracks keep the keeper's protection, neighbour claims, exceptions, and swarm duties visible at the same time.
The legal sequence
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The fourth marker is deliberately outside the protected cycle: neighbour distributions begin only after the three years end.
Keeper rights
The hive remains within its three-year immunity.
Neighbour claims
The nearest holdings continue to wait for their later entitlement.
Liability and exceptions
Claims for injury or the tract's stated exceptions can still interrupt ordinary immunity.
Swarms and distribution
The legal scheme postpones ordinary swarm gratuities, even though real colonies may swarm earlier.
Keeper rights
The keeper retains the benefit of immunity through this final year.
Neighbour claims
Ordinary neighbour claims remain deferred until the three years finish.
Liability and exceptions
The same limited exceptions remain available; immunity does not erase personal injury.
Swarms and distribution
The cycle closes; the later swarm-gratuity obligation is about to begin.
Keeper rights
The special three-year protection has ended; the fore-pledge has secured the promised settlement.
Neighbour claims
The four nearest holdings become entitled to gratuities, ordered by nearness rather than equal percentages.
Liability and exceptions
The post-immunity rules apply within the bees' legally described range of trespass.
Swarms and distribution
The edition's commentary assigns one swarm to each neighbour across years four and five; the fourth neighbour may wait until year five.
Immunity in force
Year of origin
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The tract gives the bees three years of soire, or immunity from ordinary neighbour claims. The editors understand this as a period intended to let a new beekeeper become established, while noting that the text does not finally resolve whether the immunity belongs to each new hive or to a new beekeeper's first hive.
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