or in whose land and district the brigandage took place shall
render back to him whatever of his was lost.

section 24. If it was a life, the city and governor shall pay one mina
of silver to his people.

section 25. If in a man's house a fire has been kindled, and a man who
has come to extinguish the fire has lifted up his eyes to the property of
the owner of the house, and has taken the property of the owner of the
house, that man shall be thrown into that fire.

section 26. If either a ganger or a constable, whose going on an errand
of the king has been ordered, goes not, or hires a hireling and sends him
in place of himself, that ganger or constable shall be put to death; his
hireling shall take to himself his house.

section 27. If a ganger or a constable, who is diverted to the
fortresses of the king, and after him one has given his field and his
garden to another, and he has carried on his business, if he returns and
regains his city, one shall return to him his field and his garden, and
he shall carry on his business himself.

section 28. If a ganger or a constable who is diverted to the fortresses
of the king, his son be able to carry on the business, one shall give him
field and garden and he shall carry on his father's business.

section 29. If his son is young and is not able to carry on his father's
business, one-third of the field and garden shall be given to his mother,
and his mother shall rear him.

section 30. If a ganger or a constable has left alone his field, or his
garden, or his house, from the beginning of his business, and has caused
it to be waste, a second after him has taken his field, his garden, or
his house, and has gone about his business for three years, if he returns
and regains his city, and would cultivate his field, his garden, and his
house, one shall not give them to him; he who has taken them and carried
on his business shall carry it on.

section 31. If it is one year only and he had let it go waste, and he
shall return, one shall give his field, his garden, and his house, and he
shall carry on his business.

section 32. If a ganger or a constable who is diverted on an errand of
the king's, a merchant has ransomed him and caused him to regain his
city, if in his house there is means for his ransom, he shall ransom his
own self; if in his house there is no means for his ransom, he shall be
ransomed from the temple of his city; if in the temple of his city there