. . four _SE_ of silver

(_i_) the hire of a . . . _SE_ of silver

(_j_) the hire of a builder. . . _SE_ of silver _per diem_ he shall give.

section 275. If a man has hired a (boat?) _per diem_, her hire is three
_SE_ of silver.

section 276. If a man has hired a fast ship, he shall give two and a
half _SE_ of silver _per diem_ as her hire.

section 277. If a man has hired a ship of sixty _GUR_, he shall give one-
sixth of a shekel of silver _per diem_ as her hire.

section 278. If a man has bought a manservant or a maidservant, and he
has not fulfilled his month and the _bennu_ sickness has fallen upon him,
he shall return him to the seller, and the buyer shall take the money he
paid.

section 279. If a man has bought a manservant or a maidservant and has a
complaint, his seller shall answer the complaint.

section 280. If a man has bought in a foreign land the manservant or the
maidservant of a man, when he has come into the land, and the owner of
the manservant or the maidservant has recognised his manservant or his
maidservant, if the manservant or maidservant are natives without price
he shall grant them their freedom.

section 281. If they are natives of another land the buyer shall tell
out before God the money he paid, and the owner of the manservant or the
maidservant shall give to the merchant the money he paid, and shall
recover his manservant or his maidservant.

section 282. If a slave has said to his master 'Thou art not my master,'
as his slave one shall put him to account and his master shall cut off
his ear.

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The judgements of righteousness which Hammurabi the mighty king confirmed
and caused the land to take a sure guidance and a gracious rule.

The following three sections, which are known to belong to the Code from
copies made for an Assyrian king in the seventh century B.C., are given
here for the sake of completeness. They obviously come within the space
once occupied by the five erased columns.

section X. If a man has taken money from a merchant and has given a
plantation of dates to the merchant, has said to him, 'The dates that are
in my plantation take for thy money,' that merchant shall not agree, the
dates that are in the plantation the owner of the plantation shall take,
and he shall answer to the merchant for the money and its interests
according to the tenour of his bond. The dates that are over, which are
in the plantation, the owner of the planta