Minor:
as incapable, with slave, 44, 7
rights reserved, 161
Miscarriage. See Assault, Fine:
aggravation in assault, 62, 209, 211, 213
Money. See Hire, Fines:
as earnest to close the bargain, 230
current coin, 253
deferred payments of, 235
letter requesting, 383
precautions in giving and receiving, 51, 105
said to belong to a god, 256
Monogamy. See Marriage:
in early days, 134
Mortgages:
entire pledging, 266
related to pledges, 265. See Pledges
second, debarred, 265
second mortgage secured, 267
Mother:
in charge of son's education, 46, 29
incest with, 56, 157
power over children, 148-150
Mutilations, by order of judge, 97
Nabonidus, his place in chronology, 181
Nebuchadrezzar:
his chronology, 181, 230, 291
his exploits, 194
Names:
clan, from office in the temple, 214
Semitic, 279
show slave's origin or nationality, 178
significant, 176, 177, 178
Notary, his fee for writing out a bond, 231
Nurse, her duties and responsibilities, 61, 194, 153, 155
Oath. See Affidavit, Bond:
about foreign slave, 67, 281
as to death of ox, 65, 249
deposit, 53, 120
depreciation, 53, 126
estimate of goods on lost boat, 64, 240
as to loss, 53, 120
by brander, that he was misled, 63, 227
disclaiming evil intention, 62, 206, 207
for confirmation of sale, 233
for purgation, taken by agent, 51, 102, 103, 106;
taken by principal, 51, 107;
taken by owner of corn, 53, 120
how administered, 92
its purport and where taken, 93, 94
on loss by lightning or lion, 66, 266
to clear from charge of adultery, 54, 131
Octroi duties, 206
Official. See Bailiff:
cannot give his benefice in exchange, 48, 40, 41
compensation of official, 76
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duties and responsibilities, 46, 26, 27, 47, 30-39, 76 sq.
duty and position considered, 76 sq.
has his own private rights, 47, 39
holds lands by royal charter, 322
if captured on the king's business, 47, 32
to be ransomed, 47, 32
how the ransom is to be paid, 47, 32
liable to death penalty, 46, 26
may resume use of the benefice, 46, 27
not to appropriate or alienate public property, 47, 33-38
not to be hired out, plundered, or oppressed, 47, 35
not to depute duty, 46, 26
on enforced absence, 46, 27
one year allowed, 47, 30
penalty for neglect, 47, 30, 31
provision for son in absence, 46, 29
rights as against substitutes, 46, 26-29
service of, 77
son may be deputy, 46, 28
the benefice or feoff, 76
three years' limit, 47, 30
Old age provision:
by adoption, 155, 158, 160
by son, 224
Omens and predictions, letter illustrative of, 365 sq.
Ordeal by water:
considered as a legal custom, 96, 97
for witchcraft, 44, 2
nature of, 44, 2, 54, 132, 97
to purge from slander, 54, 132
Owner's risk in hiring. See Hire:
horse killed, at God's hand, 65, 249
loss by lightning or lion, on herdsman's oath, 66, 266
ox or ass, killed in open field, 65, 244
Palace:
its relation to the priesthood, 211 sq.
place for archives, 322
title for the royal state authority, 61, 187, 192, 193
Partnership:
a manufacturing, 292
dissolution of, 288, 291
its earliest appearance, 287
its evidence in Assyrian literature, 290
later Babylonian, 290, 291
its ideogram, 287-289
its relation to capital, 288
old commercial custom, 290
partnership documents, 288 sq.
powers of attorney, for protection, 292
reckonings, 291
Patrician, highest class in the state, 74 sq.
Penalties:
as demanded for wrong-doing, 96
blood vengeance commuted, 116
for adultery, 117, 118
for perjury in courts of law, 94, 95
imprisoned and bailed out, 117
in courts of law, 94
to prevent failure in contract, 233
woman thrown from a pillar, 140
Penalty due for. See Retaliation, Fines:
adultery by a wife, strangling, 54, 129
adultery, drowning, 54, 133
death of hostage slave, one-third of a mina of silver, 52, 116
fatal assault on pregnant woman, death of his daughter, 62, 209
imprudent speech, tongue cut out, 61, 192, 150
incest, mother and son burnt, 56, 157
incest, banished the city, 56, 156
incest, half mina of silver and the marriage-portion, 56, 156
incest, strangling, 56, 155
incest, the man cut off from his father's house, 56, 158
incest, woman drowned, 56, 155
on brander for branding without leave, hands cut off, 63, 226;
if deceived, accused is free, 63, 227
son for striking father, hands cut off, 61, 194
slave for striking freeman's privates, ear cut off, 62, 205
veterinary, for loss of ox or ass, one-fourth of its value, 63, 225
wet-nurse for neglect, breasts cut off, 61, 194
permanent injury in a quarrel, pay the doctor, 62, 206
rape of betrothed, death, 54, 130
slander, forehead branded, 52, 127
striking a superior's privates, 60 blows of ox-hide scourge, 62, 202
undutifulness and slander, 55, 143
unnatural conduct, eyes torn out, 61, 193, 150
unsuccessful operation by surgeon, hands cut off, 63, 218;
same on slave, slave for slave, 63, 219;
loss of slave's eye, half his value, 63, 220