The rule would seem to refer to a case in which a man's wife interfered in a quarrel. This law, “the jus talionis,” is repeated elsewhere in substa…

A personal injury peculiar to women—a hurt producing miscarriage—is here considered. The miscarriage might cost the woman her life, in which case t…

And if any mischief follow
According as that is, so shall it be done to the smiter: if death follows,