Hiring, risks in: bull, known to be vicious, kills freeman, one-half mina of silver, 62, 251 bull, known to be vicious, kills slave, one-third mina of silver, 62, 252 bull, mad and gores, the owner free, 65, 250 ox, broken horn or torn muzzle or tail cut off, quarter the value of ox, 65, 248 ox, cut or broken leg, ox for ox, 65, 246 ox, died from the elements, on affidavit man is free, 65, 249 ox gored to death or killed by blows, ox for ox, 65, 245 ox, loses an eye, half the value of ox, 65, 247 ox or ass killed by lion in open field, owner’s risk, 65, 244 slave killed, one-third mina of silver, 65, 252 Hostage for debt. _See_ Mancipium Housebreaking, its penalties, 44, 6, 46, 21, 53, 125 Houses: block of, in Nineveh, 245 bought as area of land, 187, 188 burial vault in, 245 contracts for building, 240 cost, 246 deed of sale, 241 description for sale, 240 in relation to land, 188 plans of, and description, 239 price, 243 side buildings, 246 size, 246 various parts of, 244 Hypothecation, law of, 48, 49 Identification of lost property, 45, 9 Ignorance, plea of, 62, 206, 63, 227 Illegal purchase and its penalty, 47, 35, 37 Impaling: as a penalty considered, 97 death penalty to wife for conniving at her husband’s murder, 56, 153 Incest: crime of, 56, 154-158 of man and daughter, 56, 156 penalty, man banished the city, 56, 156 of man and daughter-in-law, 56, 155, 156 penalty, man strangled and woman drowned, 56, 155 of man and his mother, 56, 157 penalty, both burnt, 56, 157 of man and step-mother, 56, 158 penalty, to be cut off from his father’s house, 56, 158 of man and woman betrothed to his son, 56, 156 penalty, half mina of silver and marriage-portion, 56, 156 Inheritance. _See_ Marriage: implied in adoption, 157, 160 of sons by second marriage, 71, D rights of, considered, 161 _sq._ succession by law of descent, 121 Interest: by the king’s standard, 49, 51 calculated by the merchant, 51, 100 on bond to creditor, 48, 48, 255 on temporary loan, 251, 255 on use of corn, 256 postponed for a year, 48, 48 relations between interest and profit, 265 Iron, mention of, 302 Judge: acts on marriage-portions, 72, E, G duties and liabilities, 44, 5, 45, 9, 13, 53, 127, 59, 177, 72, 73, 80 _sq._, 102 _sq._ his position in ancient Babylonia, 80 _sq._ how the case was submitted, 88 inquires in interest of children of first marriage, 59, 177 list of sentences and decisions by, 102 name of officials in Assyrian times, 106 to witness branding, 53, 127 Judgment, false. _See_ False: by default, 45, 13 not to be altered, 44, 5 Kidnapping, 45, 14