190. If a man has not reckoned with his sons a young child which he has adopted and brought up, that foster-child may return to the house of his father.
191. If a man who has adopted a child and brought him up, has built a dwelling, (and) after he has children (of his own) set [pg 509] his face to cut off the foster-child, that child shall not go his way. His foster-father shall give him one-third of his property as his inheritance and (then) he shall go. He shall give him nothing of the field, plantation, and house.
192. If the son of a favourite or the son of a public woman say to his foster-father and his foster-mother, “Thou art not my father, thou art not my mother,” they shall cut out his tongue.[232]
193. If the child of a favourite or the child of a public woman come to know his father's house, and despise his foster-father and his foster-mother, and go to his father's house, they shall tear out his eyes.[233]
194. If a man has given his child to a nurse, and that child has died in the hands of the nurse, and the nurse, without [his] father and his mother, rear another child, they shall summon her, and as she has rear[ed] another child without [his] father and mother, they shall cut off her breasts.
195. If a son smite his father, they shall cut off his hands.
196. If a man has destroyed the eye of the son of a man, they shall destroy his eye.
197. If he has broken the limb of a man, they shall break his limb.
198. If he has destroyed the eye of a poor man, or broken the limb of a poor man, he shall pay one mana of silver.
199. If he has destroyed the eye of a man's slave, or broken the limb of a man's slave, he shall pay half his value.[234]