Maintenance: of concubine and divorced wife, 54, 137 of wife secured, 54, 133-135 Mancipium, hostage to work off debt: difference in free born or slave, 52, 116 in natural death, 52, 115 in violent death, 52, 116 slave may be sold by creditor, 53, 118 redeemed by debtor, 53, 119 but not if mother of creditor’s children, 53, 119 wife, son, or daughter free in fourth year, 52, 117 Manslaughter: by blow in quarrel, 62, 207, 208 of hostage, 52, 116 penalty, if a slave, one-third mina of silver, 52, 116 Manufacturing partnership, 292 Marduk: at Babylon, 78 had votaries at Babylon, 60, 182 oath by, 92, 165 of Eridu, 133 Marking. _See_ Branding: other than slaves, 177 slaves, 176 Marriage: bride given away usually by the father, 126; sometimes by the mother or brother, 126, 127; or by agnates, 127 ceremony, 132, 133 fatherless girls in, 137 home and home-going, 133 monogamy and polygamy, 134 not quite free to man or woman, 127 of king’s daughter, 137 of second wife in the time of the first wife, 56, 148 of two sisters to one man, 138, 139 preliminaries, 128 presents and payments, 130-132 registration, 128 rôle of contracting parties, 126 the bond of the family organization, 119 _sq._ unhappy, and its results, 142 votaries, 137 wife required father-in-law’s consent, 128 with attached conditions, 140 husband to maintain mother-in-law, 140 dower his wife if he sends her away, 140 wife to be thrown from a pillar if she leaves him, 140 Marriage conditions. _See_ Children, Marriage, Share, Widow, Wife: at a definite place, “wedding-house,” 128 in ancient Babylonia, 119 _sq._ presents to the parents of the bride, 128 questions owing to unfaithfulness, 54-56 having concubines and maids, 54, 137, 55, 138 _sq._ registration, 128 suitor rejected through slander, 57, 161 there must be marriage contract, 54, 128, 119 Marriage contract. _See_ Bond: ceremonies, 132 _sq._ preliminaries, 123 _sq._