ost property, the buyer shall take the money he
paid from the house of the giver.

section 10. If the buyer has not brought the giver who gave it him and
the witnesses before whom he bought, and the owner of the lost property
has brought the witnesses knowing his lost property, the buyer has acted
the thief, he shall be put to death; the owner of the lost property shall
take his lost property.

section 11. If the owner of the lost property has not brought witnesses
knowing his lost property, he has lied, he has stirred up strife, he
shall be put to death.

section 12. If the giver has betaken himself to his fate, the buyer
shall take from the house of the giver fivefold as the penalty of that
case.

section 13. If that man has not his witnesses near, the judge shall set
him a fixed time, up to six months, and if within six months he has not
driven in his witnesses, that man has lied, he himself shall bear the
blame of that case.

section 14. If a man has stolen the son of a freeman, he shall be put to
death.

section 15. If a man has caused either a palace slave or palace maid, or
a slave of a poor man or a poor man's maid, to go out of the gate, he
shall be put to death.

section 16. If a man has harboured in his house a manservant or a
maidservant, fugitive from the palace, or a poor man, and has not
produced them at the demand of the commandant, the owner of that house
shall be put to death.

section 17. If a man has captured either a manservant or a maidservant,
a fugitive, in the open country and has driven him back to his master,
the owner of the slave shall pay him two shekels of silver.

section 18. If that slave will not name his owner he shall drive him to
the palace, and one shall enquire into his past, and cause him to return
to his owner.

section 19. If he confine that slave in his house, and afterwards the
slave has been seized in his hand, that man shall be put to death.

section 20. If the slave has fled from the hand of his captor, that man
shall swear by the name of God, to the owner of the slave, and shall go
free.

section 21. If a man has broken into a house, one shall kill him before
the breach and bury him in it (?).

section 22. If a man has carried on brigandage, and has been captured,
that man shall be put to death.

section 23. If the brigand has not been caught, the man who has been
despoiled shall recount before God what he has lost, and the city and
govern