The Oldest Code of Laws in the World - The code of laws promulgated by Hammurabi, King of Babylon - B.C. 2285-2242 by Hammurabi
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page 17 of 86 (19%)
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section 62. If the field which has been given him to plant he has not planted as a garden, if it was corn land, the gardener shall measure out corn to the owner of the field, like its neighbour, as produce of the field for the years that are neglected, and he shall do the ordered work on the field and return to the owner of the field. section 63. If the field was unreclaimed land, he shall do the ordered work on the field and return it to the owner of the field and measure out ten _GUR_ of corn _per GAN_ for each year. section 64. If a man has given his garden to a gardener to farm, the gardener as long as he holds the garden shall give to the owner of the garden two-thirds from the produce of the garden, and he himself shall take one-third. section 65. If the gardener does not farm the garden and has diminished the yield, he shall measure out the yield of the garden like its neighbour. NOTE.--Here five columns of the monument have been erased, only the commencing characters of column xvii. being visible. The subjects of this last part included the further enactments concerning the rights and duties of gardeners, the whole of the regulations concerning houses let to tenants, and the relationships of the merchant to his agents, which continue on the obverse of the monument. [See page 58.] Scheil estimates the lost portion at 35 sections, and following him we recommence with section 100. . . . the interests of the money, as much as he took, he shall write down, and when he has numbered his days he shall answer his |
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