The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 1 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 546 pages of information about The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 1.

The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 1 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 546 pages of information about The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 1.

110.  If a “sister of a god” [one devoted to the temple] open a tavern, or enter a tavern to drink, then shall this woman be burned to death.

111.  If an inn-keeper furnish sixty ka of usakani-drink to ... she shall receive fifty ka of corn at the harvest.

112.  If anyone be on a journey and intrust silver, gold, precious stones, or any movable property to another, and wish to recover it from him; if the latter do not bring all of the property to the appointed place, but appropriate it to his own use, then shall this man, who did not bring the property to hand it over be convicted, and he shall pay fivefold for all that had been intrusted to him.

113.  If any one have a consignment of corn or money, and he take from the granary or box, without the knowledge of the owner, then shall he who took corn without the knowledge of the owner out of the granary or money out of the box be legally convicted, and repay the corn he has taken.  And he shall lose whatever commission was paid to him, or due him.

114.  If a man have no claim on another for corn and money, and try to demand it by force, he shall pay one-third of a mina of silver in every case.

115.  If any one have a claim for corn or money upon another and imprison him; if the prisoner die in prison a natural death, the case shall go no further.

116.  If the prisoner die in prison from blows or maltreatment, the master of the prisoner shall convict the merchant before the judge.  If he was a free-born man, the son of the merchant shall be put to death; if it was a slave, he shall pay one-third of a mina of gold, and all that the master of the prisoner gave he shall forfeit.

117.  If any one fail to meet a claim for debt, and sell himself, his wife, his son and daughter for money or give them away to forced labor:  they shall work for three years in the house of the man who bought them or the proprietor and in the fourth year they shall be set free.

118.  If he give a male or female slave away for forced labor, and the merchant sublease them, or sell them for money, no objection can be raised.

119.  If any one fail to meet a claim for debt, and he sell the maid servant who has borne him children, for money, the money which the merchant has paid shall be repaid to him by the owner of the slave and she shall be freed.

120.  If any one store corn for safe keeping in another person’s house, and any harm happen to the corn in storage, or if the owner of the house open the granary and take some of the corn, or if especially he deny that the corn was stored in his house:  then the owner of the corn shall claim his corn before God [on oath], and the owner of the house shall pay its owner for all of the corn that he took.

121.  If any one store corn in another man’s house he shall pay him storage at the rate of one gur for every five ka of corn per year.

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