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Hammurabi, King of Babylonia and Johns, C. H. W. (Claude Hermann Walter)
Desertion, by husband, of wife— involuntary, 133. of city and wife, 136. of adoptive parents, 193.
Detention of fugitive slave punished, 19.
Disinheritance, for incest, 159. of son, 168. not without legal process and for good cause, 168.
Distraint for debt, 114, 115. unjustified, fine one-third mina of silver, each time, 114. death of person taken in, 115, 110. not allowed on warehoused goods, 120. of working ox fined, 241.
District liable, for highway robbery, 23. for ransom of official, 32.
Diverted to, perhaps ‘captured in,’ Winckler’s tr.
Divorce, 137, 138. wife takes her bride-price, 137. or fixed sum, one mina of silver from gentleman, 139. or fixed sum, one-third mina from poor man, 140.
Doctor, privileges and responsibilities, 215-221. fees for cures, 215, 221. causes death, 218-220. paid by assailant, 206.
Domestic inferior. See Minor.
Dowry. See Bride-price.
Drowning, as penalty for— selling drink too cheap, 109. adultery, 129. bad wife, 143. incest with daughter-in-law, 155. deserting husband’s house in his enforced absence, being provided with proper maintenance, 133.
Dyke, 53.
Ear cut off as penalty, 205.
Endowment of office. See Benefice.
Equals, assault of, 200, 203, 206.
Evicted purchaser reimbursed, 9. tenant reimbursed, Y.
Exchange, of benefice illegal, 41.
Exile, penalty for incest, 154.
Eye, torn out as penalty, 193. struck out in assault, 196. disease of, 215. cure of, fee for, ten shekels of silver, 215. loss of eye, assessed at five shekels of silver, 220.
False judgement, penalty for, 5. claims for money or goods, 106, 107, 126. accusation of adultery, 131.
Farm. See Lease.
Fatal assault of gentleman by gentleman, 207. of gentleman by poor man, 208.
Favourite son, may be gifted by father, 165. in his lifetime, 165. by written deed, 165. other children no claim against, 165. takes equal share with them on father’s death, 165.
Fees for curing wound, or disease of eye, by surgical operation— gentleman pays ten shekels of silver, 215. poor man pays five shekels of silver, 216. slave pays two shekels of silver, 216. cure of broken limb or diseased bowel— gentleman pays five shekels, 221. poor man pays three shekels, 222. slave pays two shekels, 223. cure of bad wound of ox or sheep, one-sixth of shekel, 224. for building house, two shekels per sar, 228. to boatman for navigating boat, two shekels, 234. warehousing goods, one-sixtieth value, 121.
Fines imposed for— unlawful distraint, one-third mina, 114. seducing daughter-in-law before marriage, half mina, 156. aggravated assault, gentleman on gentleman, one mina, 203. aggravated assault, poor man on poor man, ten shekels, 204. fatal wound in quarrel, gentleman to gentleman, half mina, 207. fatal wound in quarrel, poor man to poor man, third mina, 208. assault on pregnant gentlewoman, causing miscarriage, ten shekels, 209. assault on pregnant poor woman, causing miscarriage, five shekels, 211. assault on pregnant slave, causing miscarriage, two shekels, 213. assault on pregnant poor woman, causing her death, half mina, 212. assault on pregnant slave, causing her death, third mina, 214. causing death of ox or sheep, by careless operation, quarter price, 225. distraint on working ox, one-third mina, 241. mutilation of hired ox, quarter price, 248. letting vicious ox gore a man to death, half mina, 251. stealing corn or plants, on metayer, sixty gur of corn per gan, 255. letting oxen, taken on metayer, sixty gur of corn per gan, 255. theft of watering machine, five shekels, 259. theft of water bucket, or plough, (harrow?), three shekels, 260. (N.B.—Fines reckoned in silver, 60 shekels to the mina.)
Fires, theft at, 25.
Floods, 45, 46, 48.
Forfeit of price paid in illegal purchase, 35, 37, 177. oxen and field, for neglect to cultivate, 256.
Forfeiture of claim— by self-help, 113. by cruelty, 116.
Fortress of the king, may be ‘defeat of the king,’ Winckler’s tr.
Foster mother, duties and liabilities, 194.
Freedom, of hostage for debt, after three years, 117. to marry, as she chooses, on part of divorced wife, after bringing up children, 137. daughter-in-law, seduced before marriage, 158. widow, leaving settlement to children, 172.
Free-men sold into slavery, to pay fine, 54.
Fugitive, slave, 16, 17. poor man, 16.
Ganger, associated with constable, q.v.
Gentleman, one of three estates, contrasted with poor man and slave, 196, 197, 199, etc.
Gift. See Favourite son.
Goring by ox, 250, 251.
Gouging out eye, 196. penalty, 196, 198.
Governor, duties and liabilities, 23, 33 ff. not to delegate duty, 34. nor accept substitute, 34. not to oppress subordinates, 35.