173.  If this woman bear sons to her second husband, in the place to which she went, and then die, her earlier and later sons shall divide the dowry between them.

174.  If she bear no sons to her second husband, the sons of her first husband shall have the dowry.

175.  If a state slave or the slave of a freed man marry the daughter of a free man, and children are born, the master of the slave shall have no right to enslave the children of the free.

176.  If, however, a state slave or the slave of a freed man marry a man’s daughter, and after he married her she bring a dowry from a father’s house, if then they both enjoy it and found a household, and accumulate means, if then the slave die, then she who was free born may take her dowry, and all that her husband and she had earned; she shall divide them into two parts, one-half the master for the slave shall take, and the other half shall the free-born woman take for her children.  If the free-born woman had no gift she shall take all that her husband and she had earned and divide it into two parts; and the master of the slave shall take one-half and she shall take the other for her children.

177.  If a widow, whose children are not grown, wishes to enter another house [remarry], she shall not enter it without the knowledge of the judge.  If she enter another house the judge shall examine the estate of the house of her first husband.  Then the house of her first husband shall be intrusted to the second husband and the woman herself as managers.  And a record must be made thereof.  She shall keep the house in order, bring up the children, and not sell the household utensils.  He who buys the utensils of the children of a widow shall lose his money, and the goods shall return to their owners.

178.  If a “devoted woman” or a prostitute [connected with the temple neither can marry] to whom her father has given a dowry and a deed therefor, but if in this deed it is not stated that she may bequeath it as she pleases, and has not explicitly stated that she has the right of disposal; if then her father die, then her brothers shall hold her field and garden, and give her corn, oil and milk according to her portion, and satisfy her.  If her brothers do not give her corn, oil and milk according to her share, then her field and garden shall be given to a farmer whom she chooses and the farmer shall support her.  She shall have the usufruct of field and garden and all that her father gave her so long as she lives, but she cannot sell or assign it to others.  Her position of inheritance belongs to her brothers.

179.  If a “sister of a god” [whose hire went to the revenue of the temple, counterpart to the public prostitute], or a prostitute, receive a gift from her father, and a deed in which it has been explicitly stated that she may dispose of it as she pleases, and give her complete disposition thereof:  if then her father die, then she may leave her property to whomsoever she pleases.  Her brothers can raise no claim thereto.