§ 179. If a lady, a votary, or a vowed woman whose father has granted her a marriage portion, has written her a deed, in the deed he wrote her has written for her ‘after her wherever is good to her to give,’ has allowed to her all her choice, after the father has gone to his fate, after her she shall give wherever 18 good to her, her brothers have no claim on her. ;
§ 180. If a father to his daughter, a votary, bride, or vowed woman, has not granted a mar- riage portion, after the father has gone to his fate, she shall take in the goods of the father’s house a share like one son, as long as she lives she shall enjoy it, after her it 1s her brothers’ forsooth.
§ 181. If a father has vowed to God a votary, hierodule, or virgin, and has not granted her a marriage portion, after the father has gone to his
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fate, she shall take in the goods of the father’s house one-third of a son’s share and shall enjoy it as long as she lives, after her it is her brothers’ forsooth.
§ 182. If a father, to his daughter, a votary of Marduk of Babylon, has not granted a marriage portion, has not written her a deed, after the father has gone to his fate, she shall share with her brothers in the goods of the father’s house, one-third of a son’s share, and shall pay no tax. A votary of Marduk, after her, shall give wherever it is good to her.
§ 183. If a father to his daughter by a concubine, has granted her a marriage portion, has given her to a husband, has written her a deed, after the father has gone to his fate, she shall not share in the goods of the father’s house. [Gn 258, Jg 117].
§ 184. If a man to his daughter by a concubine has not granted a marriage portion, has not given her to a husband, after the father has gone to his fate, her brothers, according to the capacity of the father’s house, shall grant her a marriage portion and shall give her to a husband. [Gn 25°, Dt Q] 35-17),
§ 185. If a man has taken a young child ‘from his waters’ to sonship and has reared him up, no one has any claim against that nursling. [Gn 48°].
§ 186. If a man has taken a young child to son- ship, and when he took him his father and mother rebelled, that nursling shall return to his father’s house.
§ 187. The son of a NER-SE-GA, a palace warder, or the son of a vowed woman no one has any claim upon.
§ 188, If an artisan has taken a son to bring up and has caused him to learn his handicraft, no one has any claim. j
§ 189. If he has not caused him to learn his handicraft, that nursling shall return to his father’s house.
§ 190. If a man has not numbered with his sons the child whom he took to his sonship and brought up, that nursling shall return to his father’s house.
§ 191. If aman, after he has taken a young child to his sonship and brought him up, has made a house for himself and acquired children and has set his face to cut off the nursling, that child shall not go his way, the father that brought him up shall give to him from his goods one-third of his sonship and he shall go off; from field, garden, and house he shall not give him.
§ 192. If a son of a palace warder or of a vowed woman to the father that brought him up and the mother that brought him up has said, ‘Thou art not my father, thou art not my mother,’ one shall cut out his tongue.
§ 193. If a son of a palace warder or of a vowed woman has known his father’s house, and has hated the father that brought him up or the mother that brought him up, and has gone off to the house of his father, one shall tear out his eye. [Pr 3077].
§ 194. If a man has given his son to a wet-nurse, (and) that son has died in the hand of the wet- nurse, (and) the wet-nurse without consent of his father and his mother has procured another child, one shall call her to account, and because without consent of his father and his mother she has pro- cured another child, one shall cut off her breasts.
§ 195. If a man has struck his father, one shall cut off his hands. [Ex 2171’, Lv 20°, Dt 2138 25”, ier ehOe,
§ 196. If a man has caused the loss of a gentle- man’s eye, one shall cause his eye to be lost. [Ex Qt. Ly 24%, Dt 1971, Mt 5°}.
§ 197. If he has shattered a gentleman’s limb, one shall shatter his limb.
§ 198. If he has caused a poor man to lose his
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eye or shattered a poor man’s limb, he shall pay one mina of silver.
§ 199. If he has caused the loss of the eye of a gentleman’s servant or has shattered the limb of a gentleman’s servant, he shall pay half his price. [Ex 2126],