180.  If a father give a present to his daughter—­either marriageable or a prostitute [unmarriageable]—­and then die, then she is to receive a portion as a child from the paternal estate, and enjoy its usufruct so long as she lives.  Her estate belongs to her brothers.

181.  If a father devote a temple-maid or temple-virgin to God and give her no present:  if then the father die, she shall receive the third of a child’s portion from the inheritance of her father’s house, and enjoy its usufruct so long as she lives.  Her estate belongs to her brothers.

182.  If a father devote his daughter as a wife of Marduk of Babylon [as in 181], and give her no present, nor a deed; if then her father die, then shall she receive one-third of her portion as a child of her father’s house from her brothers, but she shall not have the management thereof.  A wife of Marduk may leave her estate to whomsoever she wishes.

183.  If a man give his daughter by a concubine a dowry, and a husband, and a deed; if then her father die, she shall receive no portion from the paternal estate.

184.  If a man do not give a dowry to his daughter by a concubine, and no husband; if then her father die then her brother shall give her a dowry according to her father’s wealth and secure a husband for her.

185.  If a man adopt a child and to his name as son, and rear him, this grown son cannot be demanded back again.

186.  If a man adopt a son, and if after he has taken him he injure his foster father and mother, then this adopted son shall return to his father’s house.

187.  The son of a paramour in the palace service, or of a prostitute, cannot be demanded back.

188.  If an artisan has undertaken to rear a child and teaches him his craft, he cannot be demanded back.

189.  If he has not taught him his craft, this adopted son may return to his father’s house.

190.  If a man does not maintain a child that he has adopted as son and reared with his other children, then his adopted son may return to his father’s house.

191.  If a man, who had adopted a son and reared him, founded a household, and had children, wish to put this adopted son out, then this son shall not simply go his way.  His adoptive father shall give him of his wealth one-third of a child’s portion, and then he may go.  He shall not give him of the field, garden and house.

192.  If a son of a paramour or a prostitute say to his adoptive father or mother:  “You are not my father, or my mother,” his tongue shall be cut off.

193.  If the son of a paramour or a prostitute desire his father’s house, and desert his adoptive father and adoptive mother, and goes to his father’s house, then shall his eye be put out.

194.  If a man give his child to a nurse and the child die in her hands, but the nurse unbeknown to the father and mother nurse another child, then they shall convict her of having nursed another child without the knowledge of the father and mother and her breasts shall be cut off.