The Code of Law 201- 250

201.   If he knock out the teeth of a freed man, he shall pay one-third of a gold mina.

202.   If any one strike the body of a man higher in rank than he, he shall receive sixty blows with an ox-whip in public.

203.   If a free-born man strike the body of another free-born man or equal rank, he shall pay one gold mina.

204.   If a freed man strike the body of another freed man, he shall pay ten shekels in money.

205.   If the slave of a freed man strike the body of a freed man, his ear shall be cut off.

206.   If during a quarrel one man strike another and wound him, then he shall swear, "I did not injure him wittingly," and pay the physicians.

207.   If the man die of his wound, he shall swear similarly, and if he (the deceased) was a free-born man, he shall pay half a mina in money.

208.   If he was a freed man, he shall pay one-third of a mina.

209.   If a man strike a free-born woman so that she lose her unborn child, he shall pay ten shekels for her loss.

210.   If the woman die, his daughter shall be put to death.

211.   If a woman of the free class lose her child by a blow, he shall pay five shekels in money.

212.   If this woman die, he shall pay half a mina.

213.   If he strike the maid-servant of a man, and she lose her child, he shall pay two shekels in money.

214.   If this maid-servant die, he shall pay one-third of a mina.

215.   If a physician make a large incision with an operating knife and cure it, or if he open a tumor (over the eye) with an operating knife, and saves the eye, he shall receive ten shekels in money.

216.   If the patient be a freed man, he receives five shekels.

217.   If he be the slave of some one, his owner shall give the physician two shekels.

218.   If a physician make a large incision with the operating knife, and kill him, or open a tumor with the operating knife, and cut out the eye, his hands shall be cut off.

219.   If a physician make a large incision in the slave of a freed man, and kill him, he shall replace the slave with another slave.

220.   If he had opened a tumor with the operating knife, and put out his eye, he shall pay half his value.

221.   If a physician heal the broken bone or diseased soft part of a man, the patient shall pay the physician five shekels in money.

222.   If he were a freed man he shall pay three shekels.

223.   If he were a slave his owner shall pay the physician two shekels.

224.   If a veterinary surgeon perform a serious operation on an ass or an ox, and cure it, the owner shall pay the surgeon one-sixth of a shekel as a fee.

225.   If he perform a serious operation on an ass or ox, and kill it, he shall pay the owner one-fourth of its value.

226.   If a barber, without the knowledge of his master, cut the sign of a slave on a slave not to be sold, the hands of this barber shall be cut off.

227.   If any one deceive a barber, and have him mark a slave not for sale with the sign of a slave, he shall be put to death, and buried in his house. The barber shall swear: "I did not mark him wittingly," and shall be guiltless.

228.   If a builder build a house for some one and complete it, he shall give him a fee of two shekels in money for each sar of surface.

229.   If a builder build a house for some one, and does not construct it properly, and the house which he built fall in and kill its owner, then that builder shall be put to death.

230.   If it kill the son of the owner the son of that builder shall be put to death.

231.   If it kill a slave of the owner, then he shall pay slave for slave to the owner of the house.

232.   If it ruin goods, he shall make compensation for all that has been ruined, and inasmuch as he did not construct properly this house which he built and it fell, he shall re-erect the house from his own means.

233.   If a builder build a house for some one, even though he has not yet completed it; if then the walls seem toppling, the builder must make the walls solid from his own means.

234.   If a shipbuilder build a boat of sixty gur for a man, he shall pay him a fee of two shekels in money.

235.   If a shipbuilder build a boat for some one, and do not make it tight, if during that same year that boat is sent away and suffers injury, the shipbuilder shall take the boat apart and put it together tight at his own expense. The tight boat he shall give to the boat owner.

236.   If a man rent his boat to a sailor, and the sailor is careless, and the boat is wrecked or goes aground, the sailor shall give the owner of the boat another boat as compensation.

237.   If a man hire a sailor and his boat, and provide it with corn, clothing, oil and dates, and other things of the kind needed for fitting it: if the sailor is careless, the boat is wrecked, and its contents ruined, then the sailor shall compensate for the boat which was wrecked and all in it that he ruined.

238.   If a sailor wreck any one's ship, but saves it, he shall pay the half of its value in money.

239.   If a man hire a sailor, he shall pay him six gur of corn per year.

240.   If a merchantman run against a ferryboat, and wreck it, the master of the ship that was wrecked shall seek justice before God; the master of the merchantman, which wrecked the ferryboat, must compensate the owner for the boat and all that he ruined.

241.   If any one impresses an ox for forced labor, he shall pay one-third of a mina in money.

242.   If any one hire oxen for a year, he shall pay four gur of corn for plow-oxen.

243.   As rent of herd cattle he shall pay three gur of corn to the owner.

244.   If any one hire an ox or an ass, and a lion kill it in the field, the loss is upon its owner.

245.   If any one hire oxen, and kill them by bad treatment or blows, he shall compensate the owner, oxen for oxen.

246.   If a man hire an ox, and he break its leg or cut the ligament of its neck, he shall compensate the owner with ox for ox.

247.  If any one hire an ox, and put out its eye, he shall pay the owner one-half of its value.

248.   If any one hire an ox, and break off a horn, or cut off its tail, or hurt its muzzle, he shall pay one-fourth of its value in money.

249.   If any one hire an ox, and God strike it that it die, the man who hired it shall swear by God and be considered guiltless.

250.   If while an ox is passing on the street (market) some one push it, and kill it, the owner can set up no claim in the suit (against the hirer).