Description : Le code Noir-art 38.Ç The escaped slave who will have been runaway during a month, as from the day when its master will have denounced him in justice, will have the ears cut and will be marked with a lily flower a shoulder; if he does it again, he will have the leg cut of the knee, and he will be marked with a lily flower on the other shoulder; and, the third time, he will be punished by death. È