(M179) § 218. If a surgeon has operated with the bronze lancet on a patrician for a serious injury, and has caused his death, or has removed a cataract for a patrician, with the bronze lancet, and has made him lose his eye, his hands shall be cut off. § 219. If the surgeon has treated a serious injury of a plebeian’s slave, with the bronze lancet, and has caused his death, he shall render slave for slave. § 220. If he has removed a cataract with the bronze lancet, and made the slave lose his eye, he shall pay half his value. (M180) § 221. If a surgeon has cured the limb of a patrician, or has doctored a diseased bowel, the patient shall pay five shekels of silver to the surgeon. § 222. If he be a plebeian, he shall pay three shekels of silver. § 223. If he be a man’s slave, the owner of the slave shall give two shekels of silver to the doctor. (M181) § 224. If a veterinary surgeon has treated an ox, or an ass, for a severe injury, and cured it, the owner of the ox, or the ass, shall pay the surgeon one-sixth of a shekel of silver, as his fee. § 225. If he has treated an ox, or an ass, for a severe injury, and caused it to die, he shall pay one-quarter of its value to the owner of the ox, or the ass. (M182) § 226. If a brander has cut out a mark on a slave, without the consent of his owner, that brander shall have his hands cut off. § 227. If someone has deceived the brander, and induced him to cut out a mark on a slave, that man shall be put to death and buried in his house; the brander shall swear, “I did not mark him knowingly,” and shall go free. (M183) § 228. If a builder has built a house for a man, and finished it, he shall pay him a fee of two shekels of silver, for each _SAR_ built on. § 229. If a builder has built a house for a man, and has not made his work sound, and the house he built has fallen, and caused the death of its owner, that builder shall be put to death. § 230. If it is the owner’s son that is killed, the builder’s son shall be put to death. § 231. If it is the slave of the owner that is killed, the builder shall give slave for slave to the owner of the house. § 232. If he has caused the loss of goods, he shall render back whatever he has destroyed. Moreover, because he did not make sound the house he built, and it fell, at his own cost he shall rebuild the house that fell. § 233. If a builder has built a house for a man, and has not keyed his work, and the wall has fallen, that builder shall make that wall firm at his own expense. (M184) § 234. If a boatman has built a boat of sixty _GUR_ for a man, he shall pay him a fee of two shekels of silver. § 235. If a boatman has built a boat for a man, and has not made his work sound, and in that same year that boat is sent on a voyage and suffers damage, the boatman shall rebuild that boat, and, at his own expense, shall make it strong, or shall give a strong boat to the owner.