section 13.  If that man has not his witnesses near, the judge shall set him a fixed time, up to six months, and if within six months he has not driven in his witnesses, that man has lied, he himself shall bear the blame of that case.

section 14.  If a man has stolen the son of a freeman, he shall be put to death.

section 15.  If a man has caused either a palace slave or palace maid, or a slave of a poor man or a poor man’s maid, to go out of the gate, he shall be put to death.

section 16.  If a man has harboured in his house a manservant or a maidservant, fugitive from the palace, or a poor man, and has not produced them at the demand of the commandant, the owner of that house shall be put to death.

section 17.  If a man has captured either a manservant or a maidservant, a fugitive, in the open country and has driven him back to his master, the owner of the slave shall pay him two shekels of silver.

section 18.  If that slave will not name his owner he shall drive him to the palace, and one shall enquire into his past, and cause him to return to his owner.

section 19.  If he confine that slave in his house, and afterwards the slave has been seized in his hand, that man shall be put to death.

section 20.  If the slave has fled from the hand of his captor, that man shall swear by the name of God, to the owner of the slave, and shall go free.

section 21.  If a man has broken into a house, one shall kill him before the breach and bury him in it (?).

section 22.  If a man has carried on brigandage, and has been captured, that man shall be put to death.

section 23.  If the brigand has not been caught, the man who has been despoiled shall recount before God what he has lost, and the city and governor in whose land and district the brigandage took place shall render back to him whatever of his was lost.

section 24.  If it was a life, the city and governor shall pay one mina of silver to his people.

section 25.  If in a man’s house a fire has been kindled, and a man who has come to extinguish the fire has lifted up his eyes to the property of the owner of the house, and has taken the property of the owner of the house, that man shall be thrown into that fire.

section 26.  If either a ganger or a constable, whose going on an errand of the king has been ordered, goes not, or hires a hireling and sends him in place of himself, that ganger or constable shall be put to death; his hireling shall take to himself his house.

section 27.  If a ganger or a constable, who is diverted to the fortresses of the king, and after him one has given his field and his garden to another, and he has carried on his business, if he returns and regains his city, one shall return to him his field and his garden, and he shall carry on his business himself.

section 28.  If a ganger or a constable who is diverted to the fortresses of the king, his son be able to carry on the business, one shall give him field and garden and he shall carry on his father’s business.