by burning, 56, 157, 97
by drowning of a woman, 56, 155, 97, 143
by strangling, 56, 155
considered as an ancient custom, 96
for adultery, 54, 133, 142
for alleged purchase of lost property, 45, 10
for allowing seditious meetings in beer-shop, 52, 109
for appropriation of lost property, 45, 9
for buying from minor or slave, 44, 7
for conniving at her husband’s murder, impaling, 56, 152
for dereliction of official duty, 46, 26, 47, 33
for employing a substitute in official duty, 46, 26, 47, 33
for harboring fugitive slaves, 5, 16;
to default the forced labor, 45, 16
for highway robbery, 46, 22
for housebreaking, 46, 21
for kidnapping a child, 45, 14
for oppressing subordinates, 47, 34
for perjury, 44, 3
for procuring desertion of slaves, 45, 15
for rape of betrothed maiden, 54, 130
for receiving stolen goods, 44, 6
for repudiating her husband, 141, 143
for retaining captured slave, 46, 19
for sacrilegious theft, 44, 6
for slander and stirring up strife, 45, 11
for theft and unable to pay, 44, 8
for theft at a fire, 46, 25
for undutifulness and slander, drowning, 55, 143, 143
for witchcraft, 44, 1
on adulterers, 54, 129
on builder for bad work, 64, 229
on builder’s son, 64, 230
on votary frequenting beer-shop, 52, 110
Debt:
abatement for damages by storm, deluge, or drought, 48, 48
creditor to have no call for year’s interest, 48, 48
debtor’s obligation not lessened, 49, 52
laws of Mancipium, 52, 115-117, 53, 118, 119
question of ante-nuptial, 56, 151
property held as security for, 263. _See_ Pledges
Debtor:
how secured against illegal process, 52, 113;
illegal distraint, 52, 114
may pay in kind, 51, Z
Debts:
of husband and wife, mutual obligations, 56, 152
question of pre-nuptial, 56, 151
Decision of judge in lawsuit, 91, 92
Decisions, legal, considered, 100 _sq._
Dedication:
of land to temple, 223, 224;
to secure divine favor, 223, 224
Deed. _See_ Bond:
of gift, with bond, 72, E
settlement on wife, 132
with the gifts, 222 _sq._
Defamation of comrade, 57, 161
Deferred payment of debt, 48, 48
Degradation from judgeship, 44, 5
Deification of river Euphrates, 44, 2
the sacred river, 44, 2
Deposit:
how recoverable, 53, 123
from minor or slave, how made legal, 44, 7
made in temple for safety and banking, 211 _sq._
Desertion:
by wife, 54, 133
by husband, who returned to claim the property, 102, 144
involuntary, of wife by husband, 54, 133, 143
of adoptive parents, 61, 193
of city and wife, 54, 136
Detention of slave, penalty death, 46, 19
Diary of a journey, 380
Dike:
burst and meadow was flooded, 49, 53
to be cared for, 199
Disinheritance:
by adoptive parents, 157, 160, 167;
done before the judge, 58, 168, 157, 160
by due legal process, 58, 168, 149, 167
carried out before a judge, 167
of adopted child, not complete, 167
of adoptive parents, 61, 192, 193, 150, 159
of mother by her son, 149
of son by his father, 42, III, 149, 167
of son by his mother, 42, IV, 149, 150
of son laid before a judge for inquiry, 58, 168, 167
of son-in-law, 57, 159
repudiation and reduction to the condition of slave, 166, 39
Distraint. _See_ Mancipium:
death of person in, 52, 115, 116
fine for illegal, one-third mina of silver, 52, 114;
of working ox, fine one-third mina of silver, 64, 241
illegal on warehoused goods, 53, 120
security against illegal, 52, 114
District or city:
for ransom of official, 47, 32
liable for highway robbery, 46, 23
Divorce:
as regulated by the Code, 141
custody of the children to the wife, 141
easiest form of, 55, 138, 143
easy for the man, difficult for the woman, 141
grounds of, 141
laws of, 54, 137, 55, 138
legal ceremony, 134
man must give wife or concubine a maintenance, 141
might marry again, 141
of concubine, 54, 137;
of votary, 54, 137
price of divorce, 55, 139, 142
protection of the wife’s rights, 140, 141
retains right to her marriage-portion, 141
shares with her children in deceased husband’s estate, 141
wife can only divorce by lawsuit, 143
wife takes her bride-price and marriage-portion, 55, 188, 141;
if no bride-price, one mina of silver, 55, 139, 141;
from plebeian one-third mina, 55, 140
Doctor. _See_ Surgeon, Veterinary:
fees for curing, 63, 215-221
paid by assailant, 62, 206
penalties, 63, 218-220
privileges and responsibilities, 63, 215-221
Donations and bequests:
as alienation of property, 218 _sq._
in Assyria, 222
in second Babylonian Empire, 222
to temple a free gift, 223
to the chief priest of the temple, 223
Dowry. _See_ Marriage-portion
Drowning. _See_ Death Penalty:
as a penalty, considered, 97, 117, 143
as penalty for selling drink too cheap, 52, 108
for desertion of husband, 54, 133
for repudiating her husband, 143
penalty for adultery, 54, 133
penalty for incest, 56, 155
penalty on undutiful and slanderous wife, 55, 143
Duplicate:
of court decision, 87
of tablet, 79
Ear cut off as penalty, 62, 205
Education in ancient Babylonia, 151-153
interpretation of signs on the monuments, 165
phrase-books, 151, 152, 153
schools, 152
slaves were apprenticed, 152
writing and use of word-phrases, 152
Elam, Elamites, troubles of, 360 _sq._
Elamite contracts, 30
Elders as assessors to the judges, 80 _sq._
Endowment of temples by kings, 195, 208 _sq._
Entailed. _See_ Family:
family property, 122, 184
land, 184
Equals, assault on, 62, 200, 203, 204
Esarhaddon, King of Assyria:
his long absences, 371
inquiries about oracles, 379
letter from, 360
sequence in his family, 366, 375, 376
son of Sennacherib, 108, 369
Estates, great, plans of, 249
Evicted:
purchaser reimbursed, 45, 9
tenant reimbursed, 50, Y
Exchange of benefice illegal, 48, 41
Expulsion of judge for altering judgment, 44, 5
Eye torn out, 61, 193
fee for cure of, ten shekels of silver, 63, 215
in diseased state, 63, 215
knocked out by assailant, 62, 196
loss of eye assessed at half value of slave, 63, 220
operated on with bronze lancet, 63, 215
False judgment:
claims for money or goods, 51, 106, 107, 53, 126
penalty for, 44, 5
witness, 44, 3, 4
Family:
alienation of property restricted by its rights, 219
attachment to ancestors, 120, 132
descendants of artisans, 120
in guilds of trade, 121
property entailed, 122
registration by father or master of the house, 128
registration of birth, marriage, and death, 128
relations of, centred in marriage, 119 _sq._
registration of descent of, 121, 128, 132
Family life, responsibilities of, to the community, 122
Family laws, Sumerian, 9
Farm. _See_ Lease:
conditions of tenancy, 276
fields rented, 276
house rented, 275
rental variable, 275
taken on shares, 276
Fatal assaults, 62, 207, 208, 210, 214
Father. _See_ Children, Wife:
disinheriting a son, 58, 168, 169
giving dowry to a daughter, votary of Marduk, 59, 60
rights, duties, and responsibilities of, 148 _sq._
Father-in-law:
and son-in-law not to quarrel over the marriage-portion, 72, E
if guilty of incest, 56, 155, 156
responsibilities of, to intended son-in-law, 57, 159-161
Fees, to surgeon:
for limb or bowels cured, five shekels of silver, 63, 221
for same on plebeian, three shekels of silver, 63, 222
for same on slave, two shekels of silver, 63, 223
for serious operation on cataract, ten shekels of silver, 63, 215
for same on plebeian, five shekels of silver, 63, 216
for same on man’s slave, two shekels of silver, 63, 217
for storage of corn, 53, 120, 121
to builder, two shekels of silver for each SAR built on, 63, 228
to builder of boat, sixty GUR per man, two shekels of silver, 64, 234
to veterinary, for curing ox or ass, one-sixth shekel of silver, 63, 224
Field. _See_ Land:
in relation to real property, 189
Fines imposed for:
assault on patrician, one mina of silver, 62, 204
assault on plebeian, ten shekels of silver, 62, 203
assault on pregnant free-woman, miscarried, ten shekels, 62, 209
assault on pregnant plebeian woman, miscarried, five shekels, 62, 211
assault on pregnant slave, miscarried, two shekels, 62, 213
defrauding, 60 GUR of corn for each GAN, 65, 255
fatal assault by mischance, one-half mina of silver, 62, 207
fatal assault on plebeian, one-third mina of silver, 62, 208
fatal assault on plebeian, pregnant, 62, 212
fatal assault on pregnant slave, one-third mina of silver, 62, 214
illegal distraint, one-third mina of silver, 52, 114
imposing distraint on working ox, one-third mina of silver, 64, 241
not guarding against viciousness of bull, one-half mina of silver, 65,
251;
if slave killed, one-third mina of silver, 65, 252
patrician’s servant’s eye or limb, half his value, 62, 199
plebeian’s eye or limb, one mina of silver, 62, 198
plebeian’s tooth, one-third mina of silver, 62, 201
seducing son’s betrothed, one-half mina of silver, 56, 156
theft of _shadduf_, or a plough, three shekels of silver, 66, 260
theft of watering machine, five shekels of silver, 66, 259
Fire, theft at, its penalty, 46, 25
Fishing rights, how regulated, 328
Floods, flooding, by rain, 48, 45, 48
Food-stuffs:
accounts of, 301
request for, 336
Forced labor. _See_ Militia
Forfeitures:
ancient custom in law courts, 95
for excessive cruelty, 52, 116
for illegal seizure, 52, 113
for illegalities, 47, 35, 37, 59, 177
for neglect, 65, 255, 256
Foster-mother:
her duties and liabilities, 61, 194
penalty, 61, 194
Freedom to:
betrothed, after seduction, 56, 156
brander, if deceived, 63, 227
concubine, after bringing up her children, 54, 137
hostage for debt, in fourth year, 52, 117
widow, if persecuted by her children, 58, 172
Freemen made slaves, 177, 178
Fugitive slave, 45, 16, 46, 17
or plebeian, 45, 16
Garden plot. _See_ Land, Sales:
in relation to real property, 189
leasing and working, 50, 60-65
sold as stocked, 247, 248
stock, vegetables, 247, 248
_Gens_, its relation to the family, 120. _See_ Family
Gifts:
as conditioned, 219
as duly executed, signed, and sealed, 219
as pin-money to a wife, 221
as restricted, 219
by father to daughter, 220
dedication to temple as free gift, 223
to friends and relatives open to suspicion, 223
God:
a party in every case in court, 90
has struck ox to death, 65, 249
oaths by, 186, 187
his temple the first centre of civilization, 186
Goring by ox, 65, 250, 251
Gouging out eye, 62, 196, 198
as penalty, 62, 196
Governor, prefect:
duties and responsibilities, 47, 33 _sq._
liable to the death penalty, 47, 33
may not alienate or appropriate public property, 47, 33 _sq._
Granary or barn, safe against creditor, 52, 113
Guarantees. _See_ Pledges:
against defects in slave, 269;
suits at law, 270;
theft, 269
joint responsibility, 269
regarding slaves, 174 _sq._ _See_ Slavery
securities for debt, 268
security for appearance, as of witness, 268, 269
value of securities, 270
Guilds:
of trade, 121
rival, 121
Guilty knowledge by buyer of stolen goods, 45, 10
Ḥammurabi:
as an administrator, 317
brought back the goddesses, 319, 320
building enterprises, 318
care for temple revenues, 317
cares for canals, 320, 321
Code of laws, 44-67;
its bibliography, 6 _sq._;
its value, 4, 5;
its condition, 6;
history of its text, 5
decides about taxes, 323, 324
epilogue to the Code, 389, 392
letters of, summarized, 316 _sq._;
belong to the first dynasty of Babylon, 316;
their importance, 316 _sq._
ordering the calendar, 317
private property, 318
prologue to the Code, 389, 390
punishes bribery, 321
redresses wrong, 321
supervises justice, 318
Hand of God, loss by, 48, 45, 46, 48
Hands cut off as penalty:
for branding slave without leave, 63, 226;
careless operation of surgeon, 63, 218;
striking father, 61, 195
Harboring fugitive slave, 45, 16
Heirs, their reversionary rights, 221
Highway robbery, 46, 22-24
city or district responsible, 46, 22-24
penalty, 46, 22
redress for, 46, 23, 2
Hire. _See_ Labor, Wages:
by king’s standard, 49, 51
of boat, 3 ŠE of silver _per diem_, 67, 275;
fast boat, 2-1/2 ŠE of silver _per diem_, 67, 276;
freight-boat of 60 GUR, 67, 277
of slave, adjustment of wages, 271
of slave, 271
wages or hire fixed for:
artisan, 5 ŠE of silver _per diem_, 67, 274
ass for threshing, 10 ḲA of corn _per diem_, 66, 269
boatman, 6 GUR of corn _per annum_, 64, 239
builder, (?) ŠE of silver _per diem_, 67, 274
carpenter, 4 ŠE of silver _per diem_, 67, 274
field laborer, 8 GUR of corn _per annum_, 65, 257
herdsman or shepherd, 8 GUR of corn _per annum_, 66, 261
laborer, first five months, 6 ŠE of silver _per diem_, 66, 273
laborer, last seven months, 5 ŠE of silver _per diem_, 66, 273
milch cow, 3 GUR of corn _per annum_, 65, 243
ox herd, 6 GUR of corn _per annum_, 65, 258
ox for threshing, 20 ḲA of corn _per diem_, 66, 268
oxen, wagon, and driver, 160 ḲA of corn _per diem_, 66, 271
potter, 5 ŠE of silver _per diem_, 67, 274
ropemaker, 4 ŠE of silver _per diem_, 67, 274
slave, 10 ḲA of corn _per diem_, 42, VII
stone-cutter, (?) ŠE of silver _per diem_, 67, 274
tailor, 5 ŠE of silver _per diem_, 67, 274
wages and time limit, 272, 273
wagon alone, 40 ḲA of corn _per diem_, 272
working ox, 4 GUR of corn _per annum_, 65, 242
young animal for threshing, 1 ḲA of corn _per diem_, 66, 270
Hiring, risks in:
bull, known to be vicious, kills freeman, one-half mina of silver, 62,
251
bull, known to be vicious, kills slave, one-third mina of silver, 62,
252
bull, mad and gores, the owner free, 65, 250
ox, broken horn or torn muzzle or tail cut off, quarter the value of ox,
65, 248
ox, cut or broken leg, ox for ox, 65, 246
ox, died from the elements, on affidavit man is free, 65, 249
ox gored to death or killed by blows, ox for ox, 65, 245
ox, loses an eye, half the value of ox, 65, 247
ox or ass killed by lion in open field, owner’s risk, 65, 244
slave killed, one-third mina of silver, 65, 252
Hostage for debt. _See_ Mancipium
Housebreaking, its penalties, 44, 6, 46, 21, 53, 125
Houses:
block of, in Nineveh, 245
bought as area of land, 187, 188
burial vault in, 245
contracts for building, 240
cost, 246
deed of sale, 241
description for sale, 240
in relation to land, 188
plans of, and description, 239
price, 243
side buildings, 246
size, 246
various parts of, 244
Hypothecation, law of, 48, 49
Identification of lost property, 45, 9
Ignorance, plea of, 62, 206, 63, 227
Illegal purchase and its penalty, 47, 35, 37
Impaling:
as a penalty considered, 97
death penalty to wife for conniving at her husband’s murder, 56, 153
Incest:
crime of, 56, 154-158
of man and daughter, 56, 156
penalty, man banished the city, 56, 156
of man and daughter-in-law, 56, 155, 156
penalty, man strangled and woman drowned, 56, 155
of man and his mother, 56, 157
penalty, both burnt, 56, 157
of man and step-mother, 56, 158
penalty, to be cut off from his father’s house, 56, 158
of man and woman betrothed to his son, 56, 156
penalty, half mina of silver and marriage-portion, 56, 156
Inheritance. _See_ Marriage:
implied in adoption, 157, 160
of sons by second marriage, 71, D
rights of, considered, 161 _sq._
succession by law of descent, 121
Interest:
by the king’s standard, 49, 51
calculated by the merchant, 51, 100
on bond to creditor, 48, 48, 255
on temporary loan, 251, 255
on use of corn, 256
postponed for a year, 48, 48
relations between interest and profit, 265
Iron, mention of, 302
Judge:
acts on marriage-portions, 72, E, G
duties and liabilities, 44, 5, 45, 9, 13, 53, 127, 59, 177, 72, 73, 80
_sq._, 102 _sq._
his position in ancient Babylonia, 80 _sq._
how the case was submitted, 88
inquires in interest of children of first marriage, 59, 177
list of sentences and decisions by, 102
name of officials in Assyrian times, 106
to witness branding, 53, 127
Judgment, false. _See_ False:
by default, 45, 13
not to be altered, 44, 5
Kidnapping, 45, 14
King:
could impress laborers, 205
endowed temples, 195, 208 _sq._
gave loans, 258;
often before harvest, or at seed-time, 258
granted privileges, 195
had power of life, 54, 129
his power over lands, 192;
limited, 192;
limited by rights of private property, 192, 193
made large land grants, 193, 194
power to pardon, 330
presents made between kings, 131
probably wrote, 308
King’s standard of money, 49, 51
Kudur, Governor of Erech, letters of, 356, 357, 358, 359
Labor, forced. _See_ Militia:
free, in demand, 269
guaranteed, 272
in competition, 269
time hired, 269
Lancet. _See_ Bronze
Land:
as a field, 189
as garden, 189
ancestral domain, claimed, 187
boundary stones, 191
dedication to a temple, 223
different from personal property, 184 _sq._
different kinds of real property, 187
entailed property, 184
great estates, 249;
their plans, 249
hired or let on shares, 197
how described for identification, 237
in relation to houses, 188
its individuality, 190, 191
king’s power over, 192
landmarks, 191
leases, 198
loans on, 197
obligations of many kinds, 205
ownership of cultivated, 185
primitive tenure, 185
sale of, 187 _sq._, 227 _sq._
settled hamlet, temple, etc., 186
sold subject to its dues, 187
systems of measurement, 189
by the yield, 190
tenure in Babylonia, 114, 184 _sq._
terms applied to, 188, 189
the Metayer system, 65, 253-256, 196
the purchaser, how protected, 228
under manorial obligations, 199
village, 185
Landlord. _See_ Metayer, Temple:
loans to tenants, 211
risks, 48, 46
Landmarks, inviolable, not to be encroached upon, 191
Lease, tenancy, tenant, farm:
abatements for losses by flood, etc., 48
allowances, 277
damages incurred, 48, 42 _sq._
different forms of, 198; fixed rent, 198;
improving lease, 198, 277
duties and responsibilities of, 48, 42 _sq._
field to cultivate, 48, 42, 43
garden on five-year lease, 50, 60
land on three-year lease, 48, 44
life, rare, 278
not invalidated by neglect to cultivate, 49, 52;
but damages to be given, 50, 63
of property generally, 275 _sq._;
farm-house, 275;
rental variable, 275
questions of rent and adjustments, 49, 50-52, 277
rights as between money-lender and owner of farm, 48, 49
rent due at harvest-time, 48, 47, 49
risks are the farmer’s, 48, 45
as between owner and tenant, 48, 46
stipulations, 277
subletting, 48, 47
tenant cannot be evicted, or can have damages, 50, Y
Leather, accounts of, 301
Legal:
decisions, 100 _sq._;
defects in slaves, 171;
difficult to classify, 101
legal procedure in Babylon illustrated, 108 _sq._
Letters and letter-writing in Babylonia, 307 _sq._
about Elam and southern Babylonia, 360-364
Assyrian, 312
business, and orders, 382 _sq._
Cappadocian, 312
classification of, 314
colloquial phrasing, 308, 309
difference in deciphering, 309
elliptical phrases, 309
form of letter, baked clay, 307
its envelope, 307
its date, 307
from the last year of Shamash-shum-ukin, 347-352 _q.v._
historical value of, 314
love-letter, 336
methods of securing privacy, 307
miscellaneous Assyrian, 365-381
of Abêshu’, 328
of Ammi-ditana, 328
of Ammi-zadûga, 329
of first Babylonian dynasty, 310
of Ḥammurabi, _q.v._
of Samsu-iluna, 327 _q.v._
of Sin-iddinam, 316, 329
of subsequent period, 311
of Tell el Amarna, 311
of the second Babylonian Empire, 382-385
old Babylonian, 336
other letters, 330
postal system for, 309
private, 308
private, of first Babylonian dynasty, 331 _sq._
regarding affairs in southern Babylonia, 353-359
royal, 315
Sennacherib to his father Sargon, 338-346 _q.v._
style of address, 308
translations of, 313
variations of formula in, 308
Levy-master, warrant-officer, tributary. _See_ Militia:
brands an escaped slave, 176
his duty and privilege, 46, 26-29, 47, 30-39
Lion, destruction by, 65, 244, 66, 266
Litigation not encouraged, 95
Loans. _See_ Metayer, Trading:
by merchants and agents, 281 _sq._
for payment of taxes, 252
from the temple, 252
giving pledges as security, 262, 263
in series of advances, 234
made by the king, 258
of corn, 253, 258, 259
of current coin, 253
of material or property, 256
of oil, 257
of other produce, 253, 259
of property on approval, 256
of wine, 257
of working material, 255
on exchange, 255
on land, 197. _See_ Land
on pledges named, 264. _See_ Pledges
on promissory notes, 251
on usual interest, 255 _sq._
on vineyard of slaves, 264
receipts for, 295
receipts for repayment of, 259
records of, 253
temporary, at harvest-time, 251
value of preserved bonds, 250 _sq._
Local liability for:
compensation for highway robbery, 46, 23, 24, 115
redemption of captive official, 47, 32
Loss:
by God’s hand, 65, 249, 66, 266
by housebreaking or rebellion, 53, 125
of claim in court, 98
or no claim allowed, 99
of crop, shared by landlord, 48, 45
of flock or herd, 63, 226
of hired animals, 65, 245, 249
of interest, 48, 48
Lost property:
pretence of losing, how punished, 53, 126
recovery by owner, 45, 9
sale by finder equals theft, 45, 9
Lying in claiming goods, 45, 9-13
Magistrate, city or district governor,
is liable for crime within the bounds, 46, 23, 24
Maid. _See_ Slave:
given by votary to husband to have children, 55, 144
her children free, 58, 171;
how made equal to wife’s, 58, 170
may be sold if childless, 55, 146
not to be sold if a mother, 55, 146
not to rival her mistress, 55, 146
penalty, to receive the slave-mark, 55, 146
Maintenance:
of concubine and divorced wife, 54, 137
of wife secured, 54, 133-135
Mancipium, hostage to work off debt:
difference in free born or slave, 52, 116
in natural death, 52, 115
in violent death, 52, 116
slave may be sold by creditor, 53, 118
redeemed by debtor, 53, 119
but not if mother of creditor’s children, 53, 119
wife, son, or daughter free in fourth year, 52, 117
Manslaughter:
by blow in quarrel, 62, 207, 208
of hostage, 52, 116
penalty, if a slave, one-third mina of silver, 52, 116
Manufacturing partnership, 292
Marduk:
at Babylon, 78
had votaries at Babylon, 60, 182
oath by, 92, 165
of Eridu, 133
Marking. _See_ Branding:
other than slaves, 177
slaves, 176
Marriage:
bride given away usually by the father, 126;
sometimes by the mother or brother, 126, 127;
or by agnates, 127
ceremony, 132, 133
fatherless girls in, 137
home and home-going, 133
monogamy and polygamy, 134
not quite free to man or woman, 127
of king’s daughter, 137
of second wife in the time of the first wife, 56, 148
of two sisters to one man, 138, 139
preliminaries, 128
presents and payments, 130-132
registration, 128
rôle of contracting parties, 126
the bond of the family organization, 119 _sq._
unhappy, and its results, 142
votaries, 137
wife required father-in-law’s consent, 128
with attached conditions, 140
husband to maintain mother-in-law, 140
dower his wife if he sends her away, 140
wife to be thrown from a pillar if she leaves him, 140
Marriage conditions. _See_ Children, Marriage, Share, Widow, Wife:
at a definite place, “wedding-house,” 128
in ancient Babylonia, 119 _sq._
presents to the parents of the bride, 128
questions owing to unfaithfulness, 54-56
having concubines and maids, 54, 137, 55, 138 _sq._
registration, 128
suitor rejected through slander, 57, 161
there must be marriage contract, 54, 128, 119
Marriage contract. _See_ Bond:
ceremonies, 132 _sq._
preliminaries, 123 _sq._
Marriage-portion. _See_ Bride-price, Marriage:
accompanies widow to a second husband, 73, H, 127
belongs to her and all her children, 73, H, 130
belongs to the children only, 57, 162, 130, 134
by “deed of gift,” as pin-money, 132
good against husband’s heirs, 132
but forfeited by second marriage, 132
childless widow takes it from the estate, 72, G
could not be reclaimed as against children, 130
doubt in case of free wife of slave, 50, 175
father cannot reclaim against children, 57, 162, 130
in lands, oxen, furniture, etc., 131
its nature, 129, 130
its relation to the bride-price, 71, C
lawsuit about, 132
less bride-price, if not repaid to husband, 57, 164, 124
nature of, 130
of concubine, 134
presented to concubine’s daughter, 60, 184
receipts for the payment of, 131
returned to injured wife, 55, 142
invalid wife, 56, 149
returned to the wife’s father’s house, 72, F, 122, 124
returned to wife’s father, if no children, 57, 163, 124
separate estate, 55, 138, 142, 56, 149, 156, 57, 162, 163, 59, 174-176,
61, 184, 72, 73, 122, 127 _sq._, 219
settlement of, by bride’s father, 71, C, 219
shall be adjudged an equivalent, 72, G
shared by children of both marriages, 58, 173, 71;
or by children of first only, 58, 174
taken by widow to second husband, 59, 172, 127
trousseau, 129
when not paid through inability, 72, E, 131
not to be cause of quarrel, 72, E, 131
when paid in full, 131
Marriages in ancient Babylonia, 114 _sq._, 123 _sq._
Master, rights and duties, 59, 175, 176, 63, 217, 223
Measure:
of land by area, 189, 249
by the average yield, 190
of timber or stone, 380