§ 231. If he has caused the slave of the owner of the house to die, he shall give slave for slave to the owner of the house.
§ 232. If he has caused the loss of goods, he shall render back whatever he has caused the loss of. Further, because he did not make strong the house he built and it fell, from his own goods he shall rebuild the house that fell.
§ 233. If a builder has built a house for a man and has not jointed his work and the wall has fallen, that builder at his own cost shall make good that wall.
§ 234. If a boatman has completed a ship of sixty GUR for a man, he shall give him two shekels of silver for his fee.
§ 235. If a boatman has completed a ship for a man and has not made his work trustworthy, and in that same year that he built that ship it has suffered an injury, the boatman shall exchange that ship or shall make it strong at his own ex- pense and shall give a strong ship to the owner of the ship.
§ 236. If a man has given his ship to a boatman on hire, and the boatman has been careless, has grounded the ship, or has caused it to be lost, the boatman shall render ship for ship to the owner. ;
§ 237. If a man has hired a boatman and ship, and with corn, wool, oil, dates, or whatever it be as freight, has freighted her, (and) that boatman has been careless and grounded the ship, or has caused what is in her to be lost, the boatman shall render back thé ship which he has grounded and whatever in her he has caused to be lost.
§ 238. If a boatman has grounded the ship of a man and has refloated her, he shall give money to half her price.
§ 239. If a man has hired a boatman, he shall give him six @UR of corn per year.
§ 240. If a ship that is going forward has struck a ship at anchor and has sunk her, the owner of the ship that has been sunk shall recount before God whatever he has lost in his ship, and that of the ship going forward which sunk the ship at anchor shall render to him his ship and whatever of his was lost.
give three shekels of silver, § 241. If a man has taken an ox on distraint, he
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shall pay one-third of a mina of silver. [Ex 22”, Dt 24%-1"),
§ 242. If a man has hired a working ox for one year, he shall pay four GUR of corn as its hire. [Ex 2214].
§ 243. If a milch cow, he shall give three GUR of corn to its owner. [Gn 31, Ex 22%].
§ 244. If a man has hired an ox or ass, and a lion has killed it in the open field, that loss is for its owner forsooth.
§ 245, If a man has hired an ox and through neglect or by blows has caused it to die, ox for ox to the owner of the ox he shall render. [Ex 221°”, Ly 24)- 21],
_ § 246. If a man has hired an ox and has crushed its foot or has cut its nape, ox for ox to the owner of the ox he shall render. [Ex 221-?°}.
_ § 247. If a man hag hired an ox and has caused it to lose its eye, he shall pay half its price to the owner of the ox. [Ex 221-1],
_ § 248. If a man has hired an ox and has broken its horn, cut off its tail, or pierced its nostrils, he shall pay a quarter of its price. [Ex Op HOAE |
g 249. If a man has hired an ox and God has struck it and it has died, the man who has hired the ox shall swear before God and shall go free. [Ex 2210,
§ 250. If a savage bull in his charge has gored a man and caused him to die, that case has no remedy. [Ex 21*%].
§ 251. If the ox has pushed a man, by pushing has made known his vice, and he has not blunted his horn, has not shut up his ox, and that ox has gored a man of gentle birth and caused him to die, he shall pay half a mina of silver. [Ex 21”).
§ 252. If a gentleman’s servant, he shall pay one-third of a mina of silver. [Ex 21°].
§ 253. If a man has hired a man to reside in his field and has furnished him implements, has en- trusted him oxen and furnished harness for them for cultivating the field, if that man has stolen the seed or provender and they have been seized in his hands, one shall cut off his hands.
g 254. If he has taken the implements, starved the oxen, from the seed which he has hoed he shall restore.
§ 255. If he has hired out the man’s oxen or has stolen the seed and has not caused it to grow in the field, one shall call that man to account and he shall measure out sixty GUK of corn per GAN of land.