§ 21. If a man has broken into a house one shall kill him before the breach, and bury him in it (2).
0, If a man has carried on brigandage and has been captured, that man shall be put to death.
§ 23. If the brigand has not been caught, the man who has been despoiled shall recount before God what he has lost, and the city and governor in whose land and district the brigandage took place shall render back to him whatever of his was lost. [Dt 21"*].
§ 24, If it was life, the city and governor shall pay one mina of silver te his people. [Dt 211+],
§ 25. If in a man’s house a fire has been kindled, and aman who has come to extinguish the fire has lifted up his eyes to the property of the owner of the house, and has taken the property of the owner of the house, that man shall be thrown into that fire.
§ 26. If either a ganger or a constable, whose going on an errand of the king has been ordered, has not gone, or has hired a hireling and sent him in place of himself, that ganger or constable shall be put to death, his hireling shall take to himself his house. [‘ ganger’=‘levy-master ’].
§ 27. If a ganger or a constable has been assigned to the fortresses of the king, and after him one has given his field and his garden to another who has carried on his duty, if he has returned and regained his city, his field and his garden shall be returned to him, and he shall carry on his duty himself.
§ 28. If when a ganger or a constable has been assigned to the fortresses of the king, his son be able to carry on the duty, one shall give him field and garden, and he shall carry on his father’s duty.
§ 29. If his son is young, and is not able to carry on his father’s duty, one-third of the field and garden shall be given to his mother, and his mother shall bring him up.
§ 30. If a ganger or a constable has neglected his field, his garden, and his house, from the beginning of his duty, and has caused it to be waste, and another after him has taken his field, his garden, and his house, and has gone about his duty for three years, if he has returned and re- gained his city, and would cultivate his field, his garden, and his house, one shall not give them to him ; he who has taken them and carried on his duty shall carry it on.
§ 31. Tf it is one year only and he had let it go
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waste, and he has returned, one shall give him his field, his garden, and his house, and he himself shall carry on his duty.
§ 32. If a ganger or a constable has been assigned on an errand of the king’s, and a merchant has ransomed him and caused him to regain his city, if in his house there is means for his ransom, he shall ransom himself; if in his house there is no means for his ransom, he shall be ransomed from the temple of his city ; if in the temple of his city
there is not means for his ransom, the palace shall
ransom him. His field, his garden, and his house shall not be given for his ransom.
§ 33. If either a governor or a magistrate has taken to himself the men of the levy, or has accepted and sent on the king’s errand a hired substitute, that governor or magistrate shall be put to death.
§ 34. If either a governor or a magistrate has taken to himself the property of a ganger, has plundered a ganger, has given a ganger on hire, has defrauded a ganger in a judgment by high- handedness, has taken to himself the gift the king has given the ganger, that governor or magistrate shall be put to death. [Lk 12°°].
§ 35. If a man has bought the cattle or sheep which the king has given to the ganger, at the hand of the ganger, he shall be deprived of his money.
§ 36. The field, garden, and house of a ganger, or constable, or a tributary, one shall not give for money.
§ 37. If a man has bought the field, garden, or house of a ganger, a constable, or a tributary, his tablet shall be broken, and he shall be deprived of his money. The field, garden, or house he shall return to its owner.
§ 38. The ganger, constable, or tributary shall not write off to his wife or his daughter, from the field, garden, or house of his benefice. Further, he shall not assign it for his debt.
§ 39. From the field, garden, and house which he has bought and acquired he may write off to his wife or his daughter, and give for his debt. [Hzk 4638}. ;
§ 40. A votary, merchant, or foreign sojourner may sell his field, his garden, or his house ; the buyer shall carry on the duty of the field, garden, or house which he has bought.
§ 41. If a man has bartered for the field, garden, or house of a ganger, constable, or tributary, and has given exchanges, the ganger, constable, or tributary shall return to his field, garden, or house, and further shall keep the exchanges given him.