§ [112]. If a man stays away on a journey and has given silver, gold, precious stones, or treasures of his hand to a man, has caused him to take them for transport, and that man whatever was for transport, where he has transported has not given and has taken to himself, the owner of the transported object, that man, concerning whatever he had to transport and gave not, shall put him to account, and that man shall give to the owner of the transported object fivefold whatever was given him.
§ [113]. If a man has corn or money upon a man, and without consent of the owner of the corn has taken corn from the heap or from
the store, that man for taking of the corn without consent of the owner of the corn from the heap or from the store, one shall put him to account, and he shall return the corn as much as he has taken, and shall lose all that he gave whatever it be.
§ [114]. If a man has not corn or money upon a man and levies a distraint, for every single distraint he shall pay one-third of a mina.
§ [115]. If a man has corn or money upon a man and has levied a distraint, and the distress in the house of his distrainer dies a natural death, that case has no penalty.
§ [116]. If the distress has died in the house of his distrainer, of blows or of want, the owner of the distress shall put his merchant to account, and if he be the son of a freeman (that has died), his son one shall kill; if the slave of a free-man, he shall pay one-third of a mina of silver, and he shall lose all that he gave whatever it be.
§ [117]. If a man a debt has seized him, and he has given his wife, his son, his daughter for the money, or has handed over to work off
the debt, for three years they shall work in the house of their buyer or exploiter, in the fourth year he shall fix their liberty.
§ [118]. If he has handed over a manservant or a maidservant to work off a debt, and the merchant shall remove and sell them for money, no one can object.
§ [119]. If a debt has seized a man, and he has handed over for the money a maidservant who has borne him children, the money the merchant paid him the owner of the maid shall pay, and he shall ransom his maid.