§ [250]. If a wild bull in his charge has
gored a man and caused him to die, that case has no remedy.
§ [251]. If the ox has pushed a man, by pushing has made known his vice, and he has not blunted his horn, has not shut up his ox, and that ox has gored a man of gentle birth and caused him to die, he shall pay half a mina of silver.
§ [252]. If a gentleman’s servant, he shall pay one-third of a mina of silver.
§ [253]. If a man has hired a man to reside in his field and has furnished him seed, has entrusted him the oxen and harnessed them for cultivating the field—if that man has stolen the corn or plants, and they have been seized in his hands, one shall cut off his hands.
§ [254]. If he has taken the seed, worn out the oxen, from the seed which he has hoed he shall restore.
§ [255]. If he has hired out the oxen of the man or has stolen the corn and has not caused it to grow in the field, that man one
shall put him to account and he shall measure out sixty gur of corn per gan of land.
§ [256]. If his compensation he is not able to pay, one shall remove the oxen from that field.
§ [257]. If a man has hired a harvester, he shall give him eight gur of corn per year.