§ [186]. If a man has taken a young child to sonship, and when he took him his father and mother rebelled, that nursling shall return to his father’s house.
§ [187]. The son of a ner-se-ga, a palace warder, or the son of a vowed woman no one has any claim upon.
§ [188]. If an artisan has taken a son to bring up, and has caused him to learn his handicraft, no one has any claim.
§ [189]. If he has not caused him to learn his handicraft, that nursling shall return to his father’s house.
§ [190]. If a man the child whom he took to
his sonship and has brought him up, has not numbered him with his sons, that nursling shall return to his father’s house.
§ [191]. If a man, after a young child whom he has taken to his sonship and brought him up, has made a house for himself and acquired children, and has set his face to cut off the nursling, that child shall not go his way, the father that brought him up shall give to him from his goods one-third of his sonship, and he shall go off; from field, garden, and house he shall not give him.
§ [192]. If a son of a palace warder, or of a vowed woman, to the father that brought him up, and the mother that brought him up, has said ‘thou art not my father, thou art not my mother,’ one shall cut out his tongue.
§ [193]. If a son of a palace warder, or of a vowed woman, has known his father’s house, and has hated the father that brought him up or the mother that brought him up, and has gone off to the house of his father, one shall tear out his eye.
§ [194]. If a man has given his son to a wet