Degradation from office, 5.

Deification of river Euphrates, 2.

Delegatus non potest delegare, 26, 33.

Deposit. See Storage, Trust, Warehouse, 7.
   not recoverable unless witnessed and sealed for, 123.
   from domestic inferior, illegal without witnessed contract, 7.

Desertion, by husband, of wife—­
   involuntary, 133.
   of city and wife, 136.
   of adoptive parents, 193.

Detention of fugitive slave punished, 19.

Disinheritance, for incest, 159.
   of son, 168.
   not without legal process and for good cause, 168.

Distraint for debt, 114, 115.
   unjustified, fine one-third mina of silver, each time, 114.
   death of person taken in, 115, 110.
   not allowed on warehoused goods, 120.
   of working ox fined, 241.

District liable, for highway robbery, 23.
   for ransom of official, 32.

Diverted to, perhaps ‘captured in,’ Winckler’s tr.

Divorce, 137, 138.
   wife takes her bride-price, 137.
   or fixed sum, one mina of silver from gentleman, 139.
   or fixed sum, one-third mina from poor man, 140.

Doctor, privileges and responsibilities, 215-221.
   fees for cures, 215, 221.
   causes death, 218-220.
   paid by assailant, 206.

Domestic inferior. See Minor.

Dowry. See Bride-price.

Drowning, as penalty for—­
   selling drink too cheap, 109.
   adultery, 129.
   bad wife, 143.
   incest with daughter-in-law, 155.
   deserting husband’s house in his enforced absence, being provided with
proper maintenance, 133.

Dyke, 53.

Ear cut off as penalty, 205.

Endowment of office. See Benefice.

Equals, assault of, 200, 203, 206.

Evicted purchaser reimbursed, 9.
   tenant reimbursed, Y.

Exchange, of benefice illegal, 41.

Exile, penalty for incest, 154.

Eye, torn out as penalty, 193.
   struck out in assault, 196.
   disease of, 215.
   cure of, fee for, ten shekels of silver, 215.
   loss of eye, assessed at five shekels of silver, 220.

False judgement, penalty for, 5.
   claims for money or goods, 106, 107, 126.
   accusation of adultery, 131.

Farm. See Lease.

Fatal assault of gentleman by gentleman, 207.
   of gentleman by poor man, 208.

Favourite son, may be gifted by father, 165.
   in his lifetime, 165.
   by written deed, 165.
   other children no claim against, 165.
   takes equal share with them on father’s death, 165.

Fees for curing wound, or disease of eye, by surgical operation—­
      gentleman pays ten shekels of silver, 215.
      poor man pays five shekels of silver, 216.
      slave pays two shekels of silver, 216.
   cure of broken limb or diseased