Slave, one of the three estates, domestic, inferior.
See Slavery:
as an institution,
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205Assyrian usages regarding,
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bad wife reduced to,
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141been gored by a vicious ox,
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252branding or tattooing,
176children to the master, may succeed equally with wife's children,
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or only obtain their freedom,
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171condemned to forced labor,
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16cure of, master pays bill,
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223different from the serfs,
172evidence not good against a free man,
179fees paid for teaching apprentice,
182free child made slave as a provision for life,
173fugitive, harboring,
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16guarantees in sale,
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168had private property,
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179her children, how legitimatized,
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135his children free,
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175his obligations to the state,
205his tablet or name-plate,
177his widow takes her marriage-portion and half their goods,
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135or at least half the goods for her children,
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176history of one traced,
180how estimated in Babylonia,
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bennu disease, returned on seller,
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280intermarriage and inheritance,
136laws of capture,
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17-20letter on runaway slaves,
330manumission of slaves,
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280marries free woman,
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136master's maid and fruitful, cannot be sold,
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119master apprenticed slave,
182means of identification,
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177not free to make bargain,
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7not to rival her mistress,
135on different footing with concubine,
135punished, for repudiating his master, by loss of ear,
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282recaptured runaway forfeit to the state,
330relative proportion in the population,
182responsibility of seller of,
70reward for capture and restoration,
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17right to his family and property,
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179rights and obligations of owners,
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17-20runaway, question of return,
181security against defects in,
269seduction from service, penal,
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15supplied the militia,
173value of female slave's children,
70widow has one son's share of estate,
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172free at her master's death,
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Son:
by adoption,
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allowed or disallowed by judge,
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169first crime against father pardoned,
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169his wife abused by his father,
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156must have father's consent to marry,
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149of the royal favorite, royal household, or votary,
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193must be prudent of speech,
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193under penalty,
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194penalty for striking father, hands cut off,
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149privileges as father's substitute,
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29receives deed of gift from father,
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165also his share in estate,
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165young son, unmarried, to be provided for,
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