section 29.  If his son is young and is not able to carry on his father’s business, one-third of the field and garden shall be given to his mother, and his mother shall rear him.

section 30.  If a ganger or a constable has left alone his field, or his garden, or his house, from the beginning of his business, and has caused it to be waste, a second after him has taken his field, his garden, or his house, and has gone about his business for three years, if he returns and regains his city, and would cultivate his field, his garden, and his house, one shall not give them to him; he who has taken them and carried on his business shall carry it on.

section 31.  If it is one year only and he had let it go waste, and he shall return, one shall give his field, his garden, and his house, and he shall carry on his business.

section 32.  If a ganger or a constable who is diverted on an errand of the king’s, a merchant has ransomed him and caused him to regain his city, if in his house there is means for his ransom, he shall ransom his own self; if in his house there is no means for his ransom, he shall be ransomed from the temple of his city; if in the temple of his city there is not means for his ransom, the palace shall ransom him.  His field, his garden, and his house shall not be given for his ransom.

section 33.  If either a governor or a magistrate has taken to himself the men of the levy, or has accepted and sent on the king’s errand a hired substitute, that governor or magistrate shall be put to death.

section 34.  If either a governor or a magistrate has taken to himself the property of a ganger, has plundered a ganger, has given a ganger to hire, has stolen from a ganger in a judgement by high-handedness, has taken to himself the gift the king has given the ganger, that governor or magistrate shall be put to death.

section 35.  If a man has bought the cattle or sheep which the king has given to the ganger from the hand of the ganger, he shall be deprived of his money.

section 36.  The field, garden, and house of a ganger, or constable, or a tributary, he shall not give for money.

section 37.  If a man has bought the field, garden, or house of a ganger, a constable, or a tributary, his tablet shall be broken and he shall be deprived of his money.  The field, garden, or house he shall return to its owner.

section 38.  The ganger, constable, or tributary shall not write off to his wife, or his daughter, from the field, garden, or house of his business, and he shall not assign it for his debt.

section 39.  From the field, garden, and house which he has bought and acquired, he may write off to his wife or his daughter and give for his debt.

section 40.  A votary, merchant, or foreign sojourner may sell his field, his garden, or his house; the buyer shall carry on the business of the field, garden, or house which he has bought.