§ [276]. If a man has hired a fast ship, he shall give two and a half še of silver per diem as her hire.
§ [277]. If a man has hired a ship of sixty gur, he shall give one-sixth of a shekel of silver per diem as her hire.
§ [278]. If a man has bought a manservant or a maidservant, and he has not fulfilled his month and the bennu sickness has fallen upon him, he shall return him to the seller, and the buyer shall take the money he paid.
§ [279]. If a man has bought a manservant or a maidservant and has a complaint, his seller shall answer the complaint.
§ [280]. If a man has bought in a foreign land the manservant or the maidservant of a man, when he has come into the land, and the owner of the manservant or the maidservant has recognised his manservant or his maidservant, if the manservant or maidservant are natives without price he shall grant them their freedom.
§ [281]. If they are natives of another land the buyer shall tell out before God the money he paid, and the owner of the manservant or the maidservant shall give to the merchant the money he paid, and shall recover his manservant or his maidservant.
§ [282]. If a slave has said to his master ‘Thou art not my master,’ as his slave one shall put him to account and his master shall cut off his ear.
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The judgements of righteousness which Hammurabi the mighty king confirmed and caused the land to take a sure guidance and a gracious rule.
The following three sections, which are