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section 178. If a lady, votary, or a vowed woman whose father has
granted her a marriage portion, has written her a deed, in the deed he
has written her has not, however, written her 'after her wherever is good
to her to give,' has not permitted her all her choice, after the father
has gone to his fate, her brothers shall take her field and her garden,
and according to the value of her share shall give her corn, oil, and
wool, and shall content her heart. If her brothers have not given her
corn, oil, and wool according to the value of her share, and have not
contented her heart, she shall give her field or her garden to a
cultivator, whoever pleases her, and her cultivator shall sustain her.
The field, garden, or whatever her father has given her she shall enjoy
as long as she lives, she shall not give it for money, she shall not
answer to another, her sonship is her brothers' forsooth.

section 179. If a lady, a votary, or a woman vowed, whose father has
granted her a marriage portion, has written her a deed, in the deed he
wrote her has written her 'after her wherever is good to her to give,'
has allowed to her all her choice, after the father has gone to his fate,
after her wherever is good to her she shall give, her brothers have no
claim on her.

section 180. If a father to his daughter a votary, bride, or vowed woman
has not granted a marriage portion, after the father has gone to his
fate, she shall share in the goods of the father's house a share like one
son, as long as she lives she shall enjoy, after her it is her brothers'
forsooth.

section 181. If a father has vowed to God a votary, hierodule, or _NU-
BAR_, and has not granted her a marriage portion, after the father has
gone to his fate she shall share in the goods of the father's house one-
third of her sonship share and shall enjoy it as long as she lives, after
her it is her brothers' forsooth.

section 182. If a father, to his daughter, a votary of Marduk, of
Babylon, has not granted her a marriage portion, has not written her a
deed, after the father has gone to his fate, she shall share with her
brothers in the goods of the father's house, one-third of her sonship
share, and shall pay no tax; a votary of Marduk, after her, shall give
wherever it is good to her.

section 183. If a father to his daughter, a concubine, has granted her a
marriage portion, has given her to a husband, has written her a deed,
after the father has gone to