The Oldest Code of Laws in the World eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 65 pages of information about The Oldest Code of Laws in the World.

The Oldest Code of Laws in the World eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 65 pages of information about The Oldest Code of Laws in the World.

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

section 222.  If it is the son of a poor man, he shall give three shekels of silver.

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

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

section 225.  If he has treated a cow or a sheep 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 sheep.

section 226.  If a brander without consent of the owner of the slave has branded a slave with an indelible mark, one shall cut off the hands of that brander.

section 227.  If a man has deceived the brander, and has caused him to brand an indelible mark on the slave, that man one shall kill him and bury him in his house, the brander shall swear, ’Not knowing I branded him,’ and shall go free.

section 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.

section 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.

section 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.

section 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.

section 232.  If he has caused the loss of goods, he shall render back whatever he has caused the loss of, and because he did not make strong the house he built, and it fell, from his own goods he shall rebuild the house that fell.

section 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.

section 234.  If a boatman has navigated a ship of sixty GUR for a man, he shall give him two shekels of silver for his fee.

section 235.  If a boatman has navigated a ship for a man and has not made his work trustworthy, and in that same year that he worked that ship it has suffered an injury, the boatman shall exchange that ship or shall make it strong at his own expense and shall give a strong ship to the owner of the ship.

section 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.

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