section 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, that boatman has been careless and grounded the ship, or has caused what is in her to be lost, the boatman shall render back the ship which he has grounded and whatever in her he has caused to be lost.

section 238.  If a boatman has grounded the ship of a man and has refloated her, he shall give money to half her price.

section 239.  If a man has hired a boatman, he shall give him six GUR of corn per year.

section 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 whatever he has lost in his ship shall recount before God, 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.

section 241.  If a man has taken an ox on distraint, he shall pay one-third of a mina of silver.

section 242.  If a man has hired a working ox for one year, he shall pay four GUR of corn as its hire.

section 243.  If a milch cow, he shall give three GUR of corn to its owner.

section 244.  If a man has hired an ox or sheep and a lion has killed it in the open field, that loss is for its owner forsooth.

section 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.

section 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.

section 247.  If a man has hired an ox and has caused it to lose its eye, he shall pay half its price to the owner of the ox.

section 248.  If a man has hired an ox, and has crushed its horn, cut off its tail, or pierced its nostrils, he shall pay a quarter of its price.

section 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.

section 250.  If a wild bull in his charge has gored a man and caused him to die, that case has no remedy.

section 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.

section 252.  If a gentleman’s servant, he shall pay one-third of a mina of silver.

section 253.  If a man has hired a man to reside in his field and has furnished him seed, has entrusted him the oxen and harnessed them for cultivating the field—­if that man has stolen the corn or plants, and they have been seized in his hands, one shall cut off his hands.

section 254.  If he has taken the seed, worn out the oxen, from the seed which he has hoed he shall restore.