The Hammurabi code and the Sinaitic legislation / with a complete translation of the great Babylonian inscription discovered at Susa, by Chilperic Edwards.

Hammurabi

Date:: 1904

Credit: The Hammurabi code and the Sinaitic legislation / with a complete translation of the great Babylonian inscription discovered at Susa, by Chilperic Edwards. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$soldier, or vassal returns into the field, garden, or house, he shall pay for the stakes that have been provided. 42. If a man take a field to farm, and grows no corn on the field, he shall be accused of neglecting to work the field ; and he shall give to the lord of the field an amount of corn according to the yield of the district. 43. If he has not cultivated the field, but has let it lie fallow, he shall give corn like its neighbour to the lord of the field. And the field that lay fallow he shall hoe and sow, and to the lord of the field restore it. 44. If a man lease unreclaimed land for three years for cultivation, but has been lazy and has not worked the field; in the fourth year he shall break up the field, hoe it, and sow it, and to the lord of the field restore it. And he shall measure out to him ten gur of corn for each ten gan. 45. If a man has let his field to a cultivator for a rental, and has received the rental ; and if afterwards the god Adad \i.e., a thunder- storm] has flooded the field and destroyed the harvest, the loss is to the cultivator. 46. If he has not received the rental of his field, or has let it for one-half or one-third of the crop; then the cultivator and the lord of$