164.  If his father-in-law do not pay back to him the amount of the “purchase price” he may subtract the amount of the “purchase price” from the dowry, and then pay the remainder to her father’s house.

165.  If a man give to one of his sons whom he prefers, a field, garden and house and a deed therefor:  if later the father die, and the brothers divide [the estate], then they shall first give him the present of his father, and he shall accept it; and the rest of the paternal property shall they divide.

166.  If a man take wives for his sons, but take no wife for his minor son, and if then he die:  if the sons divide the estate, they shall set aside besides his portion the money for the “purchase price” for the minor brother who had taken no wife as yet, and secure a wife for him.

167.  If a man marry a wife and she bear him children:  if this wife die and he then take another wife and she bear him children:  if then the father die, the sons must not partition the estate according to the mothers, they shall divide the dowries of their mothers only in this way; the paternal estate they shall divide equally with one another.

168.  If a man wish to put his son out of his house, and declare before the judge:  “I want to put my son out,” then the judge shall examine into his reasons.  If the son be guilty of no great fault, for which he can be rightfully put out, the father shall not put him out.

169.  If he be guilty of a grave fault, which should rightfully deprive him of the filial relationship, the father shall forgive him the first time; but if he be guilty of a grave fault a second time the father may deprive his son of all filial relation.

170.  If his wife bear sons to a man, or his maid-servant have borne sons, and the father while still living says to the children whom his maid-servant has borne:  “My sons,” and he count them with the sons of his wife; if then the father die, then the sons of the wife and of the maid-servant shall divide the paternal property in common.  The son of the wife is to partition and choose.

171.  If, however, the father while still living did not say to the sons of the maid-servant:  “My sons,” and then the father dies, then the sons of the maid-servant shall not share with the sons of the wife, but the freedom of the maid and her sons shall be granted.  The sons of the wife shall have no right to enslave the sons of the maid; the wife shall take her dowry [from her father], and the gift that her husband gave her and deeded to her [separate from dowry, or the purchase money paid her father], and live in the home of her husband:  so long as she lives she shall use it, it shall not be sold for money.  Whatever she leaves shall belong to her children.

172.  If her husband made her no gift, she shall be compensated for her gift, and she shall receive a portion from the estate of her husband, equal to that of one child.  If her sons oppress her, to force her out of the house, the judge shall examine into the matter, and if the sons are at fault the woman shall not leave her husband’s house.  If the woman desire to leave the house, she must leave to her sons the gift which her husband gave her, but she may take the dowry of her father’s house.  Then she may marry the man of her heart.