§ 256. If he is not able to pay his compensation, one shall cause him to be torn in pieces by the oxen on that field.
§ 257. If a man has hired a harvester, he shall give him eight GUR of corn per year.
g 258. If a man has hired an ox-driver, he shall give him six GUR of corn per year. R
§ 259. If a man has stolen a watering machine from the meadow, he shall give five shekels of silver to the owner of the watering machine.
§ 260. If he has stolen a watering bucket or a harrow, he shall pay three shekels of silver.
§ 261. If a man has hired a herdsman for the cows or a shepherd for the sheep, he shall give him eight GUR of corn per year. , ht
§ 262. If a man, ox, or sheep to [this section 1s defaced], [Ex 22").
§ 263. If he has caused an ox or sheep which was given him to be lost, ox for ox, sheep for sheep, he shall render to their owner. [Liv 243° 24),
§ 264. If a herdsman who has had cows or sheep given him to shepherd, has received his hire, what- ever was agreed, and his heart has been contented, yet has diminished the cows, diminished the sheep, lessened the offspring, he shall give offspring and produce according to the tenour of his bonds.
265. If ashepherd to whom cows and sheep have
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been given him to breed, has falsified and changed their price, or has sold them, one shall call him to account, and he shall render cows and sheep to their owner tenfold what he has stolen.
§ 266. If in a sheepfold a stroke of God has taken pace or a lion has killed, the shepherd shall
pie himself before God, and the owner of the old shall face the accident to the fold, [Ex 22, Jn 10'*).
§ 267. If a shepherd has been careless and in a sheepfold caused a loss to take place, the shepherd shall make good the fault of the loss which he has caused to be in the fold and shall pay cows or sheep and shall give to their owner.
§ 268. If a man has hired an ox for threshing, twenty KA of corn is its hire.
§ 269. If he has hired an ass for threshing, ten KA of corn is its hire.
§ 270. If he has hired a calf (goat ?) for thresh- ing, one K4 of corn is its hire.
§ 271. 1f a man has hired oxen, a waggon, and its driver, he shall give one hundred and eighty KA of corn per day.
g 272. If a man has hired a waggon by itself, he shall give forty KA of corn per day.
§ 273. If a man has hired a labourer, from the beginning of the year till the fifth month, he shall give six SE of silver per day ; from the sixth month to the end of the year he shall give five SE of silver per day.
§ 274. If a man shall hire an artisan—
(a) the hire ofa . : five SE of silver (bd) the hire of a brickmaker five SE of silver (c) the hire of a tailor . five SE of silver (d) the hire of a stone-cutter SE of silver (e) the hireofa . ‘ . . SE of silver (f) the hire of a. ; ‘ SE of silver — (g) the hire of a carpenter . four SE of silver (h) the hire of a . four S# of silver (t) the hire ofa. . SE of silver (7) the hire of a builder SE of silver per day he shall give.
§ 275. If a man has hired a (boat?) per day, her hire is three 3z of silver.
§ 276. If a man has hired a fast ship, he shall give two and a half SE of silver per day as her
hire.
§ 277. If a man has hired a ship of sixty GUR, he shall give one-sixth of a shekel of silver per day as her hire.
§ 278. If a man has bought a manservant or a maidservant, and he has not fulfilled his month and the bennu sickness has fallen upon him, he shall return him to the seller, and the buyer shall take the money he paid.
g 279. If a man has bought a manservant or a maidservant and has a complaint, his seller shall answer the complaint.
§ 280. If a man has bought in a foreign land the manservant or the maidservant of a man, when he has come into the land and the owner of the man- servant or the maidservant has recognized his manservant or his maidservant, if the manservant or maidservant are natives, without price he shall grant them their former condition. [Ex 218).
§ 281. If they are natives of another land the buyer shall tell out before God the money he paid, and the owner of the manservant or the maid- servant shall give to the merchant the money he paid, and shall recover his manservant or his maidservant.
§ 282. If a slave has said to his master, ‘Thou art not my master,’ as his slave one shall call him