240. If a freight boat has struck a ferry-boat, and grounded it, the owner of the grounded boat shall make a statement before God of everything that was destroyed in the boat and (the owner of) the freight boat which grounded the ferry-boat shall make good the boat and whatever was destroyed.
Regulations concerning the Hiring of Animals, Farming, Wages, etc.
241. If a man has forced an ox to too hard labour, he shall pay one-third a mina of silver.
242. If a man hires (the ox) for one year, he shall pay 4 GUR of grain as the hire of a working ox.
243. For the hire of an ox to carry burdens (?) he shall give 3 GUR of grain to its owner.
244. If anyone has hired an ox or an ass, and if in the field a lion has killed it, the loss is its master’s.
245. If anyone has hired an ox and has caused it to die through ill-treatment or blows, he shall return ox for ox to the owner of the ox.
246. If a man has hired an ox and has broken his leg or has cut its nape, he shall return ox for ox to the owner of the ox.
247. If a man has hired an ox and has knocked out its eye, he shall give one-half its value in silver to the owner of the ox.