12. If the seller has gone to his fate, the buyer shall receive from the house of the seller the claims of that judgment fivefold.
13. If that man have not his witnesses at hand, the judge shall grant him a delay of six months,[178] and if he have not procured his witnesses in six months,[179] that man is a rogue—he shall bear the guilt of that judgment.
14. If a man has stolen the young son of a man, he shall be killed.
15. If a man has caused to go forth from the gate either a slave of the palace, or a handmaid of the palace, or the slave of a poor man, or the handmaid of a poor man, he shall be killed.
16. If a man has sheltered the escaped male or female slave of the palace or of a poor man in his house, and at the request of the steward has not sent him forth, the master of that house shall be killed.
17. If a man has met the escaped male or female slave in the fields, and has taken him back to his master, the master of the slave shall give him two shekels of silver.
18. If that slave will not name his master, he shall take him to the palace, his intention shall be inquired into, and they shall return him to his master.
19. If he has shut up that slave in his house, and afterwards the slave has been found in his hands, that man shall be killed.
20. If a slave escape from the hands of the man who has found him, that man shall call God to witness[180] unto the master of the slave, and shall be held blameless.
21. If a man has made a breach in a house, in front of that breach they shall kill him and bury him.