cerning the money taken, and the
agent shall give to the merchant the money as much as he has taken
threefold.
section 107. If a merchant has wronged an agent and the agent has
returned to his merchant whatever the merchant gave him, the merchant has
disputed with the agent as to what the agent gave him, that agent shall
put the merchant to account before God and witnesses, and the merchant
because he disputed the agent shall give to the agent whatever he has
taken sixfold.
section 108. If a wine merchant has not received corn as the price of
drink, has received silver by the great stone, and has made the price of
drink less than the price of corn, that wine merchant one shall put her
to account and throw her into the water.
section 109. If a wine merchant has collected a riotous assembly in her
house and has not seized those rioters and driven them to the palace,
that wine merchant shall be put to death.
section 110. If a votary, a lady, who is not living in the convent, has
opened a wine shop or has entered a wine shop for drink, that woman one
shall burn her.
section 111. If a wine merchant has given sixty _KA_ of best beer at
harvest time for thirst, she shall take fifty _KA_ of corn.
section 112. If a man stays away on a journey and has given silver,
gold, precious stones, or treasures of his hand to a man, has caused him
to take them for transport, and that man whatever was for transport,
where he has transported has not given and has taken to himself, the
owner of the transported object, that man, concerning whatever he had to
transport and gave not, shall put him to account, and that man shall give
to the owner of the transported object fivefold whatever was given him.
section 113. If a man has corn or money upon a man, and without consent
of the owner of the corn has taken corn from the heap or from the store,
that man for taking of the corn without consent of the owner of the corn
from the heap or from the store, one shall put him to account, and he
shall return the corn as much as he has taken, and shall lose all that he
gave whatever it be.
section 114. If a man has not corn or money upon a man and levies a
distraint, for every single distraint he shall pay one-third of a mina.
section 115. If a man has corn or money upon a man and has levied a
distraint, and the distress in the house of his distrainer dies a natural
death, that case has no penalty.
section 116. If the distres
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