Part 47 (2/2)

238. If a boatman has sunk a man's vessel, and refloated it, he shall pay half its value(242) in silver.

239. If a man [has hired] a boatman, he shall give him 6 _gur_ of wheat yearly.

240. If a down-stream vessel collide with an up-stream vessel, and sink (it), the owner of the sunken vessel shall declare before G.o.d whatever has been lost in his vessel, and (he) of the down-stream vessel which sank the up-stream vessel shall replace for him his vessel and whatever was lost.

241. If a man has driven the ox (of another) to work, he shall pay one-third of a mana of silver.

242 and 243. If a man has hired for a year, (as) hire of a draught-ox he shall pay to its owner 4 _gur_ of wheat. (As) hire of a carrier(?)-ox, 3 _gur_ of wheat.

244. If a man has hired an ox (or) an a.s.s, and a lion kill it in the field, (the loss) is its owner's.

245. If a man has hired an ox, and cause it to die by negligence or by blows, to the ox's owner he shall make up ox for ox.(243)

246. If a man has hired an ox, and has broken its foot or cut its nape,(244) to the ox's owner he shall make up ox for ox.

247. If a man has hired an ox, and has poked out its eye, he shall pay to the ox's owner half its value in silver.

248. If a man has hired an ox, and has broken its horn, cut off its tail, or pierced(245) its nostril, he shall pay a quarter of its value in silver.

249. If a man has hired an ox, and G.o.d has stricken it and it has died, the man who hired the ox shall swear by G.o.d,(246) and shall go free.

250. If a mad bull, in its onset, has gored a man, and caused (him) to die, that case has no claim.(247)

251. If a man's ox-goring for goring-has made known to him its vice,(248) and he has not sawn off its horns, (if) he has not shut up his ox, and that ox has gored the son of a man, and caused him to die, he shall pay half a mana of silver.

252. [If] it be a man's servant, he shall give one-third of a mana of silver.

253. If a man has hired a man to stay upon his field, and [ha]nded to him the produce (?), confided to him the oxen, [and] contracted with him [to]

cultivate the field, if that man has stolen the wheat or the vegetables, and it is found in his hands, they shall cut off his hands.

254. If he has taken away the produce and deprived(249) the oxen, he shall replace the amount of the wheat which he has wasted (?).

255. If he has let out(250) the oxen of a man for hire, or stolen the wheat, and not made (it) to grow in the field, they shall summon that man, and for every 10 _bur-gan_ he shall measure 60 _gur_ of wheat.

256. If his borough cannot respond for him, they shall leave him in that field with the oxen.

257. If a man has hired a field-labourer, he shall give him 8 _gur_ of wheat yearly.

258. If a man has hired an ox-herd (?), he shall give him 6 _gur_ of wheat yearly.

259. If a man has stolen a watering-machine from the enclosure, he shall give to the owner of the watering-machine five shekels of silver.

260. If he has stolen a shadoof or a plough, he shall give three shekels of silver.

261. If a man has hired a herdsman to pasture oxen and sheep, he shall give him 8 _gur_ of wheat yearly.

262. If a man an ox or sheep for....

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