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James Hastings • SECTION 822

Section 822

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§ 200. If a man has nade the tooth of a man that is his equal to fall out, one shall make his tooth fall out. [Ex 2174].

§ 201. If he has made the tooth of a poor man to fall out, he shall pay one-third of a mina of silver.

§ 202. If a man has struck the cheek of a man who is his superior, he shall be struck in the assembly with sixty strokes of a cow-hide whip.

§ 203. If a man of gentle birth has struck the cheek of a man of gentle birth who is his equal, he shall pay one mina of silver. [Ly 2417-21],

§ 204. If a poor man has struck the cheek of a poor man, he shall pay ten shekels of silver.

§ 205. If a gentleman’s servant has struck the cheek of a freeman, one shall cut off his ear.

§ 206. If a man has struck a man in a quarrel and has caused him a wound, that man shall swear, ‘I did not strike him knowingly,’ and shall answer for the doctor. [Ex 2118, Nu 35!%, Dt 194].

§ 207. If he has died of his blows, he shall swear, and if he be of. gentle birth he shall pay half a mina of silver. [Ex 212],

§ 208. If he be the son of a poor man, he shall pay one-third of a mina of silver.

§ 209. Ifa man has struck a gentleman’s daughter and caused her to drop what is in her womb, he shall pay ten shekels of silver for what was in her womb. [Ex 21? 27),

§ 210. If that woman has died, one shall put to death his daughter. [Ex 21%, Dt 2416),

§ 211. If through his blows he has caused the daughter of a poor man to drop that which is in her womb, he shall pay five shekels of silver.

§ 212. If that woman has died, he shall pay half a Inina of silver.

§ 213. If he has struck a gentleman’s maid- Servant and caused her to drop that which is in her womb, he shall pay two shekels of silver. [Ex 21297:

§ 214. If that maid-servant has died, he shall pay one-third of a mina of silver. [Ex 2122)!

§ 215. If a doctor has treated a gentleman for @ severe wound with a bronze lancet and has cured the man, or has removed a cataract of the eye for a gentleman with the bronze lancet and has cured the eye of the gentleman, he shall take ten shekels of silver.

§ 216. If he (the patient) be the son of a poor man, he shall take five shekels of silver.

§ 217. If he be a gentleman’s servant, the master of the servant shall give two shekels of silver to the doctor.

§ 218. If the doctor has treated a gentleman for a severe wound with a lancet of bronze and has caused the gentleman to die, or has removed a cataract of the eye for a gentleman with the bronze lancet and has caused the loss of the gentle- man’s eye, one shall cut off his hands.

§ 219. If a doctor has treated the severe wound of a slave of a poor man with a bronze lancet and has caused his death, he shall render slave for slave. [Ex 212},

§ 220. If he has removed a cataract with a bronze lancet and has made him lose his eye, he shall pay in money half his price.

§ 221. If a doctor has cured the shattered limb of a gentleman, or has cured a diseased bowel, the patient shall give five shekels of silver to the doctor.

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§ 223. If a gentleman’s servant, the master of the slave shall give two shekels of silver to the doctor.

§ 224. If a cow doctor or an ass doctor has treated a cow or an ass for a severe wound and cured it, the owner of the cow or ass shall give one-sixth of a shekel of silver to the doctor as his fee.

§ 225. If he has treated a cow or an ass for a severe wound and has caused it to die, he shall give a quarter of its price to the owner of the ox or ass. [Ly 215].

§ 226. If a brander without consent of the owner of the slave has made a slave’s mark irrecognizable, one shall cut off the hands of that brander.

§ 227. If a man has deceived the brander, and has caused him to make a slave’s mark irrecog- nizable, that man one shall kill him and bury him in his house ; the brander shall swear, ‘ Not know- ing I branded him,’ and shall go free.

§ 228. If a builder has built a house for a man and has completed it, he shall give him as his fee two shekels of silver per SAR of house.

§ 229. If a builder has built a house for a man and has not made strong his work and the house he built has fallen and he has caused the death of the owner of the house, that builder shall be put to death.

§ 230. If he has caused the son of the owner of the house to die, one shall put to death the son of that builder. [Dt 2416],

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