159. Trí[ar] ná ditoing ná fortongar: ben, angar, amlabar.
[Note 159: dotoing na fortoing_er_ L amlobar N]
160. Trí ná dlegat athchommus: mac [et] a athair, ben [et] a céile, dóer [et] a thigerna.
161. Trí nát fuigletar cia beith ar a ngáes: fer adgair [et] adgairther [et] focrenar fri breith.
[Note 161: nat fuigletar cia beit N fer adgair [et] adgair (sic) [et] adgairter [et] rocrenar N]
162. Trí fors ná tuit aititiu 'na ré: bás, anfis, anfaitches.
147. Three wealths in barren places: a well in a mountain, fire out of a stone, wealth in the possession of a hard man.
148. Three renovators of the world: the womb of woman, a cow's udder, a smith's moulding-block.
149. Three concealments upon which forfeiture does not close: a wife's dowry, the food of a married couple, a boy's foster-fee.
150. Three contracts that are reversed by the decision of a judge: the contracts of a woman, of a son, of a cottar.
151. Three that are incapable of special contracts[90]: a son whose father is alive, a betrothed woman, the serf of a chief.
[90] Or, 'of contracts on their own behalf.'
152. Three sons that do not share inheritance: a son begotten in a brake,[91] the son of a slave, the son of a girl still wearing tresses.
[91] Cf. the expression _meirdrech muine_, 'a bush-strumpet,' Laws v. 176, 4.
153. Three causes that do not die with neglect: the causes of an imbecile, and of oppression, and of ignorance.
154. Three bloodsheds that need not be impugned: the bloodshed of battle, of jealousy, of mediating.
155. Three cohabitations[92] that do not pay a marriage-portion: taking her by force, outraging her without her knowledge through drunkenness, her being violated by a king.
[92] _fuchacht_, or _fuichecht_, usually means 'cuckoldry,' a meaning which does not seem to suit here.
156. Three that are not entitled to exemption: restoring a son, the tools of an artificer, hostageship.
157. Three deposits that need not be returned: the deposits of an imbecile,[93] and of a high dignitary, and a fixed deposit.[94]
[93] _i.e._ a deposit made by an imbecile. _Cf._ Plato, Republic: "But surely you would never give back to a mad friend a sword which he had lent you?"
[94] But in the Heptads (Laws v. 196, 3) _aithne fuirmida_, there rendered by 'a deposited charge,' is enumerated as one of those to be restored even if there are no bonds to that effect.