Bretha Crólige

It directly precedes Bretha Déin Chécht, a sister-tract on illegal injury.

A single manuscript preserves Bretha Crólige (National Library of Ireland MS G 11), alongside three other texts from the final third of the Senchas Már.

In "sick-maintenance" injured is taken to a neutral party and nursed back to health, with all expenses paid by the culprit.

[1]: 33  The Senchas Már has two tracts dedicated to sick-maintenance: one is Bretha Crólige; the other is Slicht Othrusa ("The Course of Sick-Maintenance"), a text of only 35 words which directly precedes Bretha Crólige in the Senchas Már.

The early 8th-century text Críth Gablach tells us that sick-maintenance had ceased to be taken; yet the contemporary Bretha Crólige describes this law as if it were a live institution.