King: could impress laborers, 205 endowed temples, 195, 208 _sq._ gave loans, 258; often before harvest, or at seed-time, 258 granted privileges, 195 had power of life, 54, 129 his power over lands, 192; limited, 192; limited by rights of private property, 192, 193 made large land grants, 193, 194 power to pardon, 330 presents made between kings, 131 probably wrote, 308 King’s standard of money, 49, 51 Kudur, Governor of Erech, letters of, 356, 357, 358, 359 Labor, forced. _See_ Militia: free, in demand, 269 guaranteed, 272 in competition, 269 time hired, 269 Lancet. _See_ Bronze Land: as a field, 189 as garden, 189 ancestral domain, claimed, 187 boundary stones, 191 dedication to a temple, 223 different from personal property, 184 _sq._ different kinds of real property, 187 entailed property, 184 great estates, 249; their plans, 249 hired or let on shares, 197 how described for identification, 237 in relation to houses, 188 its individuality, 190, 191 king’s power over, 192 landmarks, 191 leases, 198 loans on, 197 obligations of many kinds, 205 ownership of cultivated, 185 primitive tenure, 185 sale of, 187 _sq._, 227 _sq._ settled hamlet, temple, etc., 186 sold subject to its dues, 187 systems of measurement, 189 by the yield, 190 tenure in Babylonia, 114, 184 _sq._ terms applied to, 188, 189 the Metayer system, 65, 253-256, 196 the purchaser, how protected, 228 under manorial obligations, 199 village, 185 Landlord. _See_ Metayer, Temple: loans to tenants, 211 risks, 48, 46 Landmarks, inviolable, not to be encroached upon, 191 Lease, tenancy, tenant, farm: abatements for losses by flood, etc., 48 allowances, 277 damages incurred, 48, 42 _sq._ different forms of, 198; fixed rent, 198; improving lease, 198, 277 duties and responsibilities of, 48, 42 _sq._ field to cultivate, 48, 42, 43 garden on five-year lease, 50, 60 land on three-year lease, 48, 44 life, rare, 278 not invalidated by neglect to cultivate, 49, 52; but damages to be given, 50, 63 of property generally, 275 _sq._; farm-house, 275; rental variable, 275 questions of rent and adjustments, 49, 50-52, 277 rights as between money-lender and owner of farm, 48, 49 rent due at harvest-time, 48, 47, 49 risks are the farmer’s, 48, 45 as between owner and tenant, 48, 46 stipulations, 277 subletting, 48, 47 tenant cannot be evicted, or can have damages, 50, Y Leather, accounts of, 301 Legal: decisions, 100 _sq._; defects in slaves, 171; difficult to classify, 101 legal procedure in Babylon illustrated, 108 _sq._