acting by caravans, 282
bound to receive payment in kind, 51, Z
business with agents, 51, 100-107
capital out on speculation, 281, 283
has crop assigned for debt, 50, X
has to be reimbursed for ransoming official, 47, 32
his position in ancient Babylonia, 79
trading, 281 _sq._
his relation to business agent, 281 _sq._
in a distant transaction, 334, 335
in different relations of business, 48, 49, 49, 50-52, 52, 116-119, 56,
151, 50, X, 51, Z
in purchasing foreign slaves, 67, 281
legal memoranda for security, 282
must keep accurate accounts, 51, 100
sharing in the farm with owner, 48, 49, 49, 50, 51
using canals, 284
Metayer. _See_ Land:
employed by the temples, 211
form of tenancy, 65, 253-256, 196, 197
Metrology, contributions to, 380
Micheau stone, 131
Militia, statute-labor, corvée. _See_ Slavery:
classes subject to, 202, 326
considered as a system, 201 _sq._
duty and privilege of its officers, 46, 26-29, 47, 30-39, 48, 40-41, 205
forced service, 45, 16, 200, 201 _sq._
illegal impressment, 325
in the army, 203, 204
service in weaving establishments, 203
some cities were exempted, 202
supplied from slavery, 173, 175, 203
Minor:
as incapable, with slave, 44, 7
rights reserved, 161
Miscarriage. _See_ Assault, Fine:
aggravation in assault, 62, 209, 211, 213
Money. _See_ Hire, Fines:
as earnest to close the bargain, 230
current coin, 253
deferred payments of, 235
letter requesting, 383
precautions in giving and receiving, 51, 105
said to belong to a god, 256
Monogamy. _See_ Marriage:
in early days, 134
Mortgages:
entire pledging, 266
related to pledges, 265. _See_ Pledges
second, debarred, 265
second mortgage secured, 267
Mother:
in charge of son’s education, 46, 29
incest with, 56, 157
power over children, 148-150
Mutilations, by order of judge, 97
Nabonidus, his place in chronology, 181
Nebuchadrezzar:
his chronology, 181, 230, 291
his exploits, 194
Names:
clan, from office in the temple, 214
Semitic, 279
show slave’s origin or nationality, 178
significant, 176, 177, 178
Notary, his fee for writing out a bond, 231
Nurse, her duties and responsibilities, 61, 194, 153, 155
Oath. _See_ Affidavit, Bond:
about foreign slave, 67, 281
as to death of ox, 65, 249
deposit, 53, 120
depreciation, 53, 126
estimate of goods on lost boat, 64, 240
as to loss, 53, 120
by brander, that he was misled, 63, 227
disclaiming evil intention, 62, 206, 207
for confirmation of sale, 233
for purgation, taken by agent, 51, 102, 103, 106;
taken by principal, 51, 107;
taken by owner of corn, 53, 120
how administered, 92
its purport and where taken, 93, 94
on loss by lightning or lion, 66, 266
to clear from charge of adultery, 54, 131
Octroi duties, 206
Official. _See_ Bailiff:
cannot give his benefice in exchange, 48, 40, 41
compensation of official, 76
duties and responsibilities, 46, 26, 27, 47, 30-39, 76 _sq._
duty and position considered, 76 _sq._
has his own private rights, 47, 39
holds lands by royal charter, 322
if captured on the king’s business, 47, 32
to be ransomed, 47, 32
how the ransom is to be paid, 47, 32
liable to death penalty, 46, 26
may resume use of the benefice, 46, 27
not to appropriate or alienate public property, 47, 33-38
not to be hired out, plundered, or oppressed, 47, 35
not to depute duty, 46, 26
on enforced absence, 46, 27
one year allowed, 47, 30
penalty for neglect, 47, 30, 31
provision for son in absence, 46, 29
rights as against substitutes, 46, 26-29
service of, 77
son may be deputy, 46, 28
the benefice or feoff, 76
three years’ limit, 47, 30
Old age provision:
by adoption, 155, 158, 160
by son, 224
Omens and predictions, letter illustrative of, 365 _sq._
Ordeal by water:
considered as a legal custom, 96, 97
for witchcraft, 44, 2
nature of, 44, 2, 54, 132, 97
to purge from slander, 54, 132
Owner’s risk in hiring. _See_ Hire:
horse killed, at God’s hand, 65, 249
loss by lightning or lion, on herdsman’s oath, 66, 266
ox or ass, killed in open field, 65, 244
Palace:
its relation to the priesthood, 211 _sq._
place for archives, 322
title for the royal state authority, 61, 187, 192, 193
Partnership:
a manufacturing, 292
dissolution of, 288, 291
its earliest appearance, 287
its evidence in Assyrian literature, 290
later Babylonian, 290, 291
its ideogram, 287-289
its relation to capital, 288
old commercial custom, 290
partnership documents, 288 _sq._
powers of attorney, for protection, 292
reckonings, 291
Patrician, highest class in the state, 74 _sq._
Penalties:
as demanded for wrong-doing, 96
blood vengeance commuted, 116
for adultery, 117, 118
for perjury in courts of law, 94, 95
imprisoned and bailed out, 117
in courts of law, 94
to prevent failure in contract, 233
woman thrown from a pillar, 140
Penalty due for. _See_ Retaliation, Fines:
adultery by a wife, strangling, 54, 129
adultery, drowning, 54, 133
death of hostage slave, one-third of a mina of silver, 52, 116
fatal assault on pregnant woman, death of his daughter, 62, 209
imprudent speech, tongue cut out, 61, 192, 150
incest, mother and son burnt, 56, 157
incest, banished the city, 56, 156
incest, half mina of silver and the marriage-portion, 56, 156
incest, strangling, 56, 155
incest, the man cut off from his father’s house, 56, 158
incest, woman drowned, 56, 155
on brander for branding without leave, hands cut off, 63, 226;
if deceived, accused is free, 63, 227
son for striking father, hands cut off, 61, 194
slave for striking freeman’s privates, ear cut off, 62, 205
veterinary, for loss of ox or ass, one-fourth of its value, 63, 225
wet-nurse for neglect, breasts cut off, 61, 194
permanent injury in a quarrel, pay the doctor, 62, 206
rape of betrothed, death, 54, 130
slander, forehead branded, 52, 127
striking a superior’s privates, 60 blows of ox-hide scourge, 62, 202
undutifulness and slander, 55, 143
unnatural conduct, eyes torn out, 61, 193, 150
unsuccessful operation by surgeon, hands cut off, 63, 218;
same on slave, slave for slave, 63, 219;
loss of slave’s eye, half his value, 63, 220
Perjury:
in capital trial, has death penalty, 44, 3
in civil case, gives damages, 44, 4, 45, 13, 94
Phrase-books:
Babylonian, 8
their plan, 8, 9
Pillar, thrown from, a penalty, 140
Pin-money, gift to a wife, 132, 221
Plaintiff, his position in a case, 88, 89
Plebeian, poor man, between patrician and slave:
abduction of slave from, 45, 15
assault by, 62, 204, 208
cheaper divorce, 55, 140
fees paid by, 62, 208, 63, 222
harboring fugitive slave, 45, 16
slave-owner, 45, 15, 59, 175, 176
theft from, 45, 8
value of eye or limb, one mina of silver, 62, 198
value of tooth, one-third mina of silver, 62, 201
Pledges and guarantees. _See_ Loans, Mortgages:
an after-pledge, 266, 267
antichretic pledges, 262, 263, 264, 265
complications, 265-268
information meagre, 262
loan on vineyard and of slaves, 264
on service of a maid, 264
on the borrower’s service, 264
mortgages, 265
on land to secure a loan, 263
property in satisfaction of debt, 262, 263
the subject held as security, 262, x, xi
their relation to the interest, 263
value of the pledge, 265
creditor’s responsibility toward it, 265
Polygamy. _See_ Concubinage, Marriage, Monogamy:
in Assyrian times, 134
clear evidence of, among serfs and slaves, 134
distinguished from bigamy, 134
Pregnant woman. _See_ Assault, Fine
Price of drink, how regulated, 52, 108, 111
Priest:
artificer, 213
his relation to the king, 211, 212
honors paid to the priesthood, 211, 212
public position and duties, 212, 213
slave, 214
steward, 213
warden, 213
Prisoner:
pleads for liberty, 331
recaptured slave pleads, 330
Private property, its rights, 192, 193
Produce rent:
as agreed upon, 48, 46
of field, on shares, 48, 41-46
of garden, on shares, 50, 64
Promissory notes on loans, 251
Property:
alienation of its rights, 218 _sq._, 227 _sq._
alienation by sales. _See_ Sales
consent of heirs to its disposal, 221
devolution of, by gifts, bequests, 222 _sq._
importance of studying its alienation, 218, 227
method of describing, for identification, 237
methods of identifying on sale, 228
protection of purchaser from fraud, 228, 235
sales, conditions, payments, 235
Proprietary rights in temple income, 215
Public:
forced labor, 45, 16. _See_ Militia
obligations, 204
Ransom, of captive official, 47, 32
by himself, 47, 32
by the State, 47, 32
from temple treasury, 47, 32
not from his benefice, 47, 32
Rape of betrothed maiden, 54, 130
Rebellion, loss by, 53, 125
Receipt, sealed document:
as taken by agent and depositor, 53, 124, 125, 61, 204, 260, 261
for a fine, 259
for deposits rare, 260, 261
for loan, 295
for repayment of loan, 259
Receiving of stolen goods, death penalty, 44, 6
Records of business transactions, 253. _See_ Bond
Recovery:
by power of attorney, 79
of lost property, 45, 9, 10, 53, 124, 125
Redemption. _See_ Mancipium:
of maid, held for debt, 53, 119
Refusal:
by slave to name his owner, 46, 18
of conjugal rights, 55, 142
Registration:
by the master of the house, 128
guarantee of ancestry, 128
of birth, marriage, and death, 128
Remarriage:
marriage-portion goes to the children, 59, 173, 174
of divorced woman, 55, 141
of widow, 59, 173
Remission of penalty, 54, 129
Rent:
average, made payable, 48, 42, 43, 49, 55, 50, 62, 65
five ḲA of corn on each GUR of corn, 53, 121
for storage of corn, 53, 121
of garden plot, 50, 60, 61, 62
of unbroken land, on three-year lease, 48, 44
on garden plot, ten GUR of corn for each GAN of land, 50, 63
paid at harvest-time, 48, 47
payments in kind, 48, 47, 49
ten GUR of corn for each GAN of land, 48, 44
wrought on shares, 50, 64, 65
Repatriation of slave, 67, 280, 281
Repudiation:
of adoptive parents, 61, 192
of father by son, 41, I
of husband by wife, 42, V, 138, 142
of mother by son, 41, II
of wife by husband, 42, VI, 138, 142
Responsibility in service:
of employer, 42, VII
of tenant farmer, and neglect punished, 65, 253-256
Restitution, compensation, damages, reimbursement:
accident, builder gives slave for slave, 64, 231
boatman must restore the weak boat, 64, 235;
must restore the lost boat, 64, 236;
must restore boat and cargo, 64, 237
builder must rebuild, 64, 232
builder of unkeyed wall must rebuild, 64, 233
considered as an ancient custom, 98
death in highway robbery, one mina of silver to relatives, 46, 24
depreciation of property, make it good from the corn hoed, 65, 254
diminishing ox or sheep, give up to the agreements, 66, 264
embezzlement of goods, sheep or ox, tenfold return, 66, 265
fatal operation on slave, slave for slave, 63, 219
fivefold by carrier for goods lost, stolen, or appropriated, 45, 12, 52,
112
loss made good, if herdsman at fault, 66, 267
loss of goods, goods for goods, 64, 231
owner of boat in collision responsible for boat and cargo, 64, 240
ox gored, ox for ox, 65, 246
ox injured seriously, ox for ox, 65, 246
ox or ass lost, restore ox or ass, 66, 263
_shadduf_, or plough, three shekels of silver, 66, 260
simple, 44, 4, 5, 8, 45, 9, 10, 12
sixfold for overcharging agent, 51, 107
tenfold for theft by poor man, 44, 8
thirtyfold for theft by patrician, 44, 8
threefold for cheating principal, 51, 106
twelvefold for false sentence by judge, 44, 5
twofold for goods in store, 53, 120, 124, 126
twofold for pretence of losing goods, 53, 126
watering machine stolen, five shekels of silver to owner, 66, 259
Retaliation. _See_ Penalties:
dishonesty in stewardship, hands cut off, 65, 253
eye for eye, 62, 196
for defrauding, torn to pieces on that field by the oxen, 65, 256
if builder’s son dies, builder’s son is put to death, 64, 230
if slave is killed, builder gives slave for slave, 64, 231
its principles in Babylonia, 74, 98
limb for limb, 62, 197
slave for repudiating master, ear cut off, 67, 282
tooth for tooth, 62, 200
Return of slave purchased:
for defect, 67, 279
within one month for _bennu_ disease, 67, 278
Reward for slave capture, 46, 17
Riparian responsibilities, 49, 53-56, 114, 199, 321
Risks:
farmer’s, 48, 45, 46
owner’s. _See_ Owner
tenant’s, 48, 45
warehouseman’s, 53, 125
Roads, their maintenance, 286
Robbery, highway, 46, 22, 23
Runnel for watering, 49, 55
Sacred river, for ordeal, 44, 2, 54, 132
Sacrifices:
shared in by the temple, 210
sometimes sold for cash, 210
Sacrilegious theft from temple, 44, 6, 8
Sale:
of crop for debt, 49, 51
of man and goods to pay debt, 49, 53, 54
Sales:
agent in, 243
alienation of property, 227
all interests safeguarded in the deed, 232
deferred payments, 235
formal preliminaries, 227
fraud in, 235
gardens, 246, 247, 248
stocked, 247, 248
granaries, 246
occasional use of oath in, 233
of fields in first Babylonian dynasty, 248
in Assyrian times, 248
of houses, 240 _sq._ _See_ Houses
penalties for failure, 233
records at early date, 236
registration of, in temple archives, 227
retention till payment, 225
returned on failure to pay, 235
rights of purchaser, 234
transaction of the business, 227 _sq._
unimproved land, 246
Samsu-iluna:
care for deity, 327
temple dues, 327
his canal dug, 24
letters of, summarized, 327 _sq._
few in number, 327
their subject, 327
regulates fishing rights, 328
writes on business, 328
Sargon, King of Babylon:
his date fixed, 202, 396
letters to, from Sennacherib, his son, 338 _sq._
Scandal, met by ordeal, 54, 132
Scourge of ox-hide, 62, 202
Scourging:
as a penalty, sixty blows, 63, 202
considered as an ancient custom, 97
Scribe:
male and female, 84
not a priest or judge, 84, 85
often a woman, 151
the profession, 83, 151
Seal. _See_ Bond
Seditious meetings not allowed in beer-shops, 52, 109
Seduction:
of betrothed daughter-in-law, 54, 130, 56, 155, 132, 134
of slave from service, 45, 15
Sennacherib:
father of Esarhaddon, 108, 369
letters to his father, Sargon, 338 _sq._
argument for identification of writer, 338, 339
relating to Armenia, 338
their value for reconstructing history, 339
Separation:
husband deserted home and wife, 55, 142
wife deserted home, belittled husband, etc., 55, 141
Serfs, _glebae adscripti_, 172, 202
different from slaves, 172, 203
disappearance, 173
hereditary condition, 173, 202
Sesame:
crop with corn, 48, 49, 49, 50-52, 208
receipts for, 208
Settlement:
for children of second wife, 71, D
mutual deeds in, 71, C
given by fathers of bride and bride-groom, 71, C
of pin-money, 132
on wife by “deed of gift,” 132
on wife by husband, 56, 150, 132
on widow, 58, 171, 172
by widow on children, 58, 171
out of court, 87
_Shadduf_ stolen, fine three shekels of silver, 66, 260
Shalmaneser IV., 202
Shamash-shum-ukîn:
contemporary events, 360 _sq._, 368
letters illustrating his reign, 347 _sq._ , 353 _sq._
son of Esarhaddon, 366
Share. _See_ Bond, Inheritance:
belonging to votary or vowed woman, 60, 179-182
between brothers, cases of, 161-165
children of first and second husband share equally in marriage-portion,
59, 173
of first share it all, if no second family, 59, 174
children of maid, if acknowledged by father, share with children of
wife, 58, 170;
but children of wife take precedence, 58, 170
children of two marriages, 73, K
dividing of father’s estate, 161 _sq._
division at father’s death, 58, 167;
mother’s death, 58, 167
divorced wife has a child’s part, 54, 137
farmed, leased on shares, 48, 41-46, 270
form of land tenancy, 197
of deceased father’s estate to eldest son, 57, 165
of sacrifices by temple, 210
sometimes sold for cash, 210
reversionary interest to brothers, 60, 178
sons of second wife, 91, D
widow on remarriage, 73, H
with reservation, gift to favorite, 57, 165
wife’s marriage present, 56, 150
bride-price for unmarried son, 57, 166
portion for votary sister, 59, 178
Sheep:
damage done by, 49, 57, 58
manner of grazing them, 49, 58
sheep-shearing, 300
Shepherd, duties and responsibilities of, 66, 262-267
Shipping:
boats hired, 285
its value in trading, 284, 285
Sin-iddinam, letters of, 316, 329
Skins, account of, 301
Slander:
against votary or unmarried woman, 53, 127
in capital suit, 44, 3
not to be profitable, 57, 161
of title to property, 45, 11
of wife, to be purged by ordeal, 54, 132
seditious, 52, 109
Slave, one of the three estates, domestic, inferior. _See_ Slavery:
a chattel, property, 168
apprenticed, 152, 181
as an institution, 168 _sq._
assaults freeman, 62, 205
Assyrian usages regarding, 171 _sq._
authorities upon the system and facts, 168, 169;
its history, 169
bad wife reduced to, 55, 141
been gored by a vicious ox, 65, 252
branding or tattooing, 176
child of slave, 203
children to the master, may succeed equally with wife’s children, 58,
170;
or only obtain their freedom, 58, 171
condemned to forced labor, 45, 16
cure of, master pays bill, 63, 217, 219, 223
different from the serfs, 172
diseases of, bennu, 170
evidence not good against a free man, 179
fees paid for teaching apprentice, 182
foreign born, 178
foreign slaves, 67, 281
free child made slave as a provision for life, 173
fugitive, harboring, 45, 16
guarantees in sale, 174 _sq._
had much freedom, but bound, 168
had private property, 178, 179
hired laborer, 271. _See_ Hire, Wages
her children, how legitimatized, 58, 171, 135
his children free, 59, 175
his obligations to the state, 205
his tablet or name-plate, 177
his widow takes her marriage-portion and half their goods, 59, 175, 135
or at least half the goods for her children, 59, 176
history of one traced, 180
how estimated in Babylonia, 74 _sq._
if child-bearing, maid could not be sold, 135
in _bennu_ disease, returned on seller, 67, 280
intermarriage and inheritance, 136
laws of capture, 46, 17-20
legal defects, 171
letter on runaway slaves, 330
manumission of slaves, 67, 280
married, 136, 203
marries free woman, 59, 175, 136
master’s maid and fruitful, cannot be sold, 53, 119
master apprenticed slave, 182
means of identification, 176, 177
names significant, 177, 178
not free to make bargain, 44, 7
not to rival her mistress, 135
on different footing with concubine, 135
price of, 182
punished, for repudiating his master, by loss of ear, 67, 282
recaptured runaway forfeit to the state, 330
relative proportion in the population, 182
responsibility of seller of, 70
reward for capture and restoration, 46, 17
right to his family and property, 172, 178, 179
rights of, 168
rights and obligations of owners, 46, 17-20
runaway, question of return, 181
sale of, 170
security against defects in, 269
seduction from service, penal, 45, 15
skilled artisan, 173, 181, 182
status, complex, 168, 169, 180, 181
supplied the militia, 173
value estimated, 179, 180
value of female slave’s children, 70
widow has one son’s share of estate, 58, 172
free at her master’s death, 135
Slavery:
advantages of, 172, 173
branding, tattooing, 176, 177
children sold into, 178
discussed, relating to Babylonia, 168 _sq._
guarantees against rebellion, 174
flight, 174
untimely death, 175
unexpected claims, 175
over-exaction in the public service, 175
redemption as men of family, 175
illegal enslavement, 176
means of indicating, 176, 177
modes of entering into, 178
recruited from freemen, 172, 175, 177, 178
relative proportion to the population, 182
sales, 174
significant names in, 177, 178
supplied the army, 173, 203
the militia, corvée, or levy for forced labor, 173
Soldiers:
a public obligation, 204
might pay substitutes, 204
their place in the state, 201, 202
their relations to the forced labor, 202, 203
their system, 202
Son:
by adoption, 61, 185 _sq._, 154 _sq._
disinheritance of, to be inquired into by judge, 58, 168, 169;
allowed or disallowed by judge, 58, 168, 169
first crime against father pardoned, 58, 169
his wife abused by his father, 56, 155, 156
must have father’s consent to marry, 127, 149
of the royal favorite, royal household, or votary, 61, 187, 192, 193
must be prudent of speech, 61, 192, 193
under penalty, 61, 192, 194
penalty for striking father, hands cut off, 61, 195, 149
privileges as father’s substitute, 46, 28, 29
receives deed of gift from father, 57, 165
also his share in estate, 57, 165
rights given by adoption. _See_ Adoption
young son, unmarried, to be provided for, 57, 166
State:
composed of three classes, 74
having other grades, 76 _sq._
Steward:
accounts from, 302
temple officer, 213
Stolen goods, retention of equals theft, 45, 10
Strangling, penalty of, 56, 155
Striking. _See_ Assault, Fines:
of father by son, 61, 195, 149
Suitor:
his relation to bride’s parents, 123
rejected, his rights, 57, 160
rejected through calumny by comrade, 57, 161
refuses to marry, 57, 159
Suits of many kinds, 102-107
Suits at law:
damages for loss and breach of trust, 107
deposit, 106
family dispute, 104
forged will, 106
for income, 102, 103, 104
gift, 103
house, 104
inheritance, 103, 106
land, 104
legacy, 106
loss of hired ass, 106
over adoption, 106
partnership, 102
property, 102, 103, 104
rent, 106
theft of a bull, 107
theft of four slaves, 107
title to garden, 105
vexatious persecution, 104, 107
Summons to appear in court, 53, 127
Surgeon:
operations and fees, 63, 215, 223. _See_ Fees
penalties for unsuccessful operations, 63, 218-220
Sworn depositions. _See_ Oath:
for lost property, 45, 9, 46, 23, 53, 120
for lost money, 51, 102, 103
for quarrel and striking, 62, 206
on cost of boat and cargo, 64, 240
on gored ox, 65, 249
Tablet:
an irrevocable witness, 92
bibliography, 13
as classified, 13 _sq._
broken, breaking a contract, 91
Cappadocian, 29
contract, its real character, 10
duplicate of, 69, A
its form, 10, 11
on loan, its modern value, 250
value for chronology, 250, 251
peculiarity of, on corn loan, 258
present location, 18
sealed, 69, A, 127, 151
served as name-plate, 177
shows the same handwriting throughout, 151
signed by the seal, 151
Tattooing and branding escaped slave, 176
Taxes:
loaning money to pay, 252
question of ancient, 115
their collection, 323, 324, 325
Tell el Amarna letters, 14, 311
Temple:
a business institution, 211
a place of deposit and traffic, 211
a trading institution, 211, 212, 216, 217
as landowner, 209
centre of civilization, 186, 208 _sq._
clan names from office in, 214
dedication of children to, 224;
of land to, 223;
to secure divine favor, 224
endowed by kings, 195, 196
endowments, 215
had large dues, 208, 209, 210
hereditary rights in, 214
its archives for registers, 227
its importance in the state, 208 _sq._
its relation to ethics, divination, magic, 212, 213
its relation to the palace, 212, 216
its relation to the state, 216
its rights and influences, 186, 193
its slaves were as serfs, 173
its staff and influence, 211, 212
its tithe, 205, 206
its treasuries and storehouses, 211
kings made enforced loans from, 216
large landowner, 173, 193, 208 _sq._
lending money, 252
loans from, 216
negotiable rights in, 215
officials as witnesses, 86
officials in, 212, 213, 214
origin of the dues, 208, 209
property protected, 44, 6, 8
proprietary rights in income, 215, 216
right to income, 216
shared in the sacrifices, 210
testamentary devolution of property, 224, 225, 226
treasury used for ransom, 47, 32
value of its archives, ix
Tenant. _See_ Lease, Land, Farm:
defrauding owner, 65, 255
torn to pieces on the field by the oxen, 65, 256
fixed rent, 198
form of holding, and amenities, 65, 253
forms of tenancy, 184 _sq._ , 196 _sq._
his duties and responsibilities, 198 _sq._
improving lease, 198
on shares, 197
redress from, 65, 254
risks, 48, 45-47
Theft:
first order, from temple or house, 44, 6
from deposit, 53, 120
from fire, 46, 25
made good by banker, 53, 125
penalties, 44, 7, 8, 46, 25
recovered from thief, 53, 125
second order, 44, 8
securities against, 269
under Metayer, 65, 253-256
Tithe:
evidence needed, xi
how paid, 206
to the temple, 205, 206
Title-deed destroyed for illegal purchase, 47, 37
Tongue cut out as penalty, 61, 192, 150
Trading, trade:
between capital and labor, 281
its laws, 281 _sq._
money out on speculation, 51, 102, 103, 281 _sq._
relations in, by principal and agent, 51, 100-107, 281 _sq._
Trespass, law of, 49, 54, 55
Trousseau, bride’s, 129
Trust, deposit, storage. _See_ Carrier:
care in depositing valuables, 53, 122-126
corn put in store, and amount disputed, 53, 120
Valuables:
claim is contested, 53, 123-126
deposited before witnesses, 53, 122-124
on deposit, care of, 53, 122-126
Values:
difference of free-born and slave as hostage, 52, 116
sixty ḲA of _sakani_ beer for fifty ḲA of corn, 52, 111
Veterinary surgeon:
his duties and responsibilities, 63, 224-226
penalty for unsuccessful operation, 63, 225
Vicarious punishments, 98
Village lands and tenure in Babylonia, 185, 186
Votaries:
their position, 73, 74
succession of, 159