Blood money. See Wit.
Boatmen, their duties and privileges, [234]-241.
same word denotes boat-builder (Winckler’s tr.).
Boats, passenger, [276].
freight boat, [277].
building, [a/][234].
of 60 gur, built, [a/][234] (Winckler’s tr.)
collision of, [241].
wreck of, [235], [236].
Bond, a written deed or contract—
needed for legal purchase, [a/][7].
for debt, [52].
for storage, [122].
for legal marriage, [128].
shepherd’s, [264].
Branding, brander, [226], [227].
on forehead, for slander, [127].
slave without consent of owner, [a/][226], [a/][227].
Brawling, in wine shop, [109].
Breach of contract—
by lessee, [a/][42], [a/][44], [256]. See Lease, Metayer, Neglect.
of promise, [159].
Breasts, cut off, [194].
Bride-price, a present to prospective father-in-law—
usually returned with wife to bridegroom, [163].
given back by husband to divorced wife, if not a mother, [138].
returned to suitor, if not accepted, [160], [a/][161].
forfeited if suitor changes his mind, [a/][159].
if not given back to bridegroom with wife, deducted from marriage portion repaid to father-in-law, on death of wife, without children, [164].
assessed at one mina of silver, for gentleman, [139].
,, one-third mina, for poor man, [a/][139].
to be set aside for unmarried son, by his brothers, on division of father’s property, [166].