liff, runner, 36-41.
not to depute duty, 26.
in enforced absence on royal business, 27.
may depute, and resume on return, 27.
son may be deputy, 28.
provision for child, in absence, 29.
neglect of benefice, 30.
three years' limit, 30.
one year does not forfeit, 31.
captured abroad on king's business, 32.
to be ransomed, 32.
benefice inalienable, 33.
benefice protected, 34.
not to be hired out, 35.
plundered, 35.
oppressed, 35.
sale of benefice illegal, 35.
benefice not to be exchanged, 41.

Contract. _See_ Bond.

Corn land, 62.

Corporate liability, 23, 32.

Corvee. _See_ Militia.

Courtship, 159, 161.

Cow, in milk, hire of, 243.

Creditor. _See also_ Merchant.
must not ill treat pledge for debt, 116.
must release at end of three years, 117.
may sell pledged slave, on removal, 118.
may not repay himself from debtor's goods, 113.

Crop, assigned for debt, 51.
sold at king's price, 51.

Crown, man's. _See_ Strength.

Cultivation of fields--
operations needful, 43.

Custody of child, in mother, 29.

Cutting down trees--
assessment of damage, half mina of silver per tree, 59.

Damage to crops, by sheep--
assessed at twenty _GUR per GAN_, 57.
to ripe crops, at sixty _GUR per GAN_, 58.
by flooding field, 56.
by cutting down trees, assessed at half mina of silver per tree, 59.

Damages, for breach of contract, 42, 44.
for eviction from purchase, 12.
for eviction from house, Y.

_Damnum sine injuria_, 115, 118, 123, 250.

Date palm, plantation of, X.

Daughter cannot inherit benefice, 38.

Death penalty, inflicted for--
witchcraft, 1.
threatening witnesses, 3.
perjury, 3.
theft, 4.
receiving stolen goods, 4.
buying from domestic inferior, 7.
taking on deposit from domestic inferior, 7.
in default of multiple restitution, for theft of second order, 8.
appropriation of lost properly, 9.
selling lost property, 10.
vexatious claim of property as lost, 11.
kidnapping, 14.
procuring desertion of slave, 15.
harbouring fugitive slave, 18.
,, of defaulting militia, 16.
detaining fugitive slave, 18.
keeping recaptured slave, 19.
housebreaking, 21.
highway robbery, 22.
theft at fire, 25.
allowing seditious brawling in wine shop, 109.
rape of betrothed maiden, 130.
for ganger, constable, neglecting duty, 26.
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