251. If a man's ox—goring for goring—has made known to him its vice,[248] and he has not sawn off its horns, (if) he has not shut up his ox, and that ox has gored the son of a man, and caused him to die, he shall pay half a mana of silver.
252. [If] it be a man's servant, he shall give one-third of a mana of silver.
253. If a man has hired a man to stay upon his field, and [ha]nded to him the produce (?), confided to him the oxen, [and] contracted with him [to] cultivate the field, if that man has stolen the wheat or the vegetables, and it is found in his hands, they shall cut off his hands.
254. If he has taken away the produce and deprived[249] the oxen, he shall replace the amount of the wheat which he has wasted (?).
255. If he has let out[250] the oxen of a man for hire, or stolen the wheat, and not made (it) to grow in the field, they shall summon that man, and for every 10 bur-gan he shall measure 60 gur of wheat.
256. If his borough cannot respond for him, they shall leave him in that field with the oxen.
257. If a man has hired a field-labourer, he shall give him 8 gur of wheat yearly.
258. If a man has hired an ox-herd (?), he shall give him 6 gur of wheat yearly.
259. If a man has stolen a watering-machine from the enclosure, he shall give to the owner of the watering-machine five shekels of silver.
260. If he has stolen a shadoof or a plough, he shall give three shekels of silver.