Assessment of damages—­
   by sheep to growing crops, 57.
   ,, to ripe crops, 58.
   for cutting down tree in orchard, 59.
   for not carrying out terms of lease, 42, 44.
   for assault. See Fines.
   for carelessness. See Neglect.
   for culpable lack of skill. See Doctor.

Assignment for debt—­
   of bare field, 49.
   of corn field, 50.
   of date plantation, X.
   of crop, Y.
   of wife, child, or slave, to work off debt, 115.

Average yield, assessed damages, 42, 43, 44, 55, 62, 65.

Backbiting, 161.

Bailiff. See Reeve, Ganger, Constable, Benefice.

Bailment, without witness or deed—­
   from domestic inferior=theft, 7.

Banishment. See Exile.

Bearing sentence sought to be obtained. See Retaliation.

Benefice, the land, house, garden, and stock—­
   assigned by king to ganger, constable, or tributary, 30.
   inalienable, 32, 36, 37.
   sale, or purchase, forbidden, 35.
   price paid forfeited, 35.
   not to be exchanged, 41.
   not to be devised to females, 38.
   may be deputed, 27.
   hereditary, 28.
   forfeited, by disuse, 30.
   may not be pledged, 38.
   saleable to other official (?), 40.

Betrothed, maiden lived in father’s house, 130.

Bigamy, in ignorance, 135.

Blood money. See Wit.

Boatmen, their duties and privileges, 234-241.
   same word denotes boat-builder (Winckler’s tr.).

Boats, passenger, 276.
   freight boat, 277.
   building, 234.
   of 60 GUR, built, 234 (Winckler’s tr.)
   collision of, 241.
   wreck of, 235, 236.

Bond, a written deed or contract—­
   needed for legal purchase, 7.
   for debt, 52.
   for storage, 122.
   for legal marriage, 128.
   shepherd’s, 264.

Branding, brander, 226, 227.
   on forehead, for slander, 127.
   slave without consent of owner, 226, 227.

Brawling, in wine shop, 109.

Breach of contract—­
   by lessee, 42, 44, 256. See Lease, Metayer, Neglect.
   of promise, 159.

Breasts, cut off, 194.

Bride-price, a present to prospective father-in-law—­
   usually returned with wife to bridegroom, 163.
   given back by husband to divorced wife, if not a mother, 138.
   returned to suitor, if not accepted, 160, 161.
   forfeited if suitor changes his mind, 159.
   if not given back to bridegroom with wife, deducted from marriage
portion repaid to father-in-law, on death of wife, without children, 164.
   assessed at one mina of silver, for gentleman, 139.
   ,, one-third mina, for poor man, 139.
   to be set aside for unmarried son, by his brothers, on division of
father’s property, 166.

Brothel (?). See Wine shop.