If the thief be not found, then the master of the house shall come near unto God, 'to see' whether he have not put his hand unto his neighbor's goods.
If þe þeef is hid, þe lord of þe hows schal be brouyt to goddis, þat is, iugis, and he schal swere, þat he helde not forth þe hond in to þe thing of his neiybore,