§ [45]. If a man has given his field for produce to a cultivator, and has received the produce of his field, and afterwards a thunderstorm has ravaged the field or carried away the produce, the loss is the cultivator’s.
§ [46]. If he has not received the produce of his field, and has given the field either for one-half or for one-third, the corn that is in the field the cultivator and the owner of the field shall share according to the tenour of their contract.
§ [47]. If the cultivator, because in the former year he did not set up his dwelling, has assigned the field to cultivation, the owner of the field shall not condemn the cultivator; his field has been cultivated, and at harvest time he shall take corn according to his bonds.
§ [48]. If a man has a debt upon him and a thunderstorm ravaged his field or carried away the produce, or the corn has not grown through lack of water, in that year he shall not return corn to the creditor, he shall alter
his tablet and he shall not give interest for that year.
§ [49]. If a man has taken money from a merchant and has given to the merchant a field planted with corn or sesame, and said to him, ‘Cultivate the field, reap and take for thyself the corn and sesame which there is,’ if the cultivator causes to grow corn or sesame in the field, at the time of harvest the owner of the field forsooth shall take the corn or sesame which is in the field and shall give corn for the money which he took from the merchant, and for its interests and for the dwelling of the cultivator, to the merchant.
§ [50]. If the field was cultivated or the field of sesame was cultivated when he gave it, the owner of the field shall take the corn or sesame which is in the field and shall return the money and its interests to the merchant.
§ [51]. If he has not money to return, the sesame, according to its market price for the money and its interest which he took from the merchant, according to the standard
fixed by the king, he shall give to the merchant.
§ [52]. If the cultivator has not caused corn or sesame to grow in the field, he shall not alter his bonds.