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a governor or a magistrate has taken to himself the
property of a ganger, has plundered a ganger, has given a ganger to hire,
has stolen from a ganger in a judgement by high-handedness, has taken
to himself the gift the king has given the ganger, that governor or
magistrate shall be put to death.

section 35. If a man has bought the cattle or sheep which the king has
given to the ganger from the hand of the ganger, he shall be deprived of
his money.
section 36. The field, garden, and house of a ganger, or constable, or a
tributary, he shall not give for money.
section 37. If a man has bought the field, garden, or house of a ganger,
a constable, or a tributary, his tablet shall be broken and he shall be
deprived of his money. The field, garden, or house he shall return to its
owner.
section 38. The ganger, constable, or tributary shall not write off to his
wife, or his daughter, from the field, garden, or house of his business,
and he shall not assign it for his debt.
section 39. From the field, garden, and house which he has bought and
acquired, he may write off to his wife or his daughter and give for his
debt.
section 40. A votary, merchant, or foreign sojourner may sell his field,
his garden, or his house; the buyer shall carry on the business of the
field, garden, or house which he has bought.
section 41. If a man has bartered for the field, garden, or house of a
ganger, constable, or tributary, and has given exchanges, the ganger,
constable, or tributary shall return to his field, garden, or house, and
shall keep the exchanges given him.
section 42. If a man has taken a field to cultivate and has not caused the
corn to grow in the field, and has not done the entrusted work on the
field, one shall put him to account and he shall give corn like its
neighbour.
section 43. If he has not cultivated the field and has left it to itself, he
shall give corn like its neighbour to the owner of the field, and the field
he left he shall break up with hoes and shall harrow it and return to the
owner of the field.

section 44. If a man has taken on hire an unreclaimed field for three
years to open out, and has left it aside, has not opened the field, in the
fourth year he shall break it up with hoes, he shall hoe it, and harrow it,
and return to the owner of the field, and he shall measure out ten GUR
of corn per GAN.
section 45. If a man has given his field for produce to a cultivator, and
has received the produce of his field, and afterwards a thunderstorm has
ravaged the field or carried away the produce, the loss is the
cultivator's.
section 46. If he has not received the produce of his field, and has given
the field either for one-half or for one-third, the corn that is in the field
the cultivator and the owner of the field shall share according to the
tenour of their contract.
section 47. If the cultivator, because in the former year he did not set up
his dwelling, has assigned the field to cultivation, the owner of the field
shall not condemn the cultivator; his field has been cultivated, and at
harvest time he shall take corn according to his bonds.
section 48. If a man has a debt upon him and a thunderstorm ravaged
his field or carried away the produce, or the corn has not grown through
lack of water, in that year he shall not return corn to the creditor, he
shall alter his tablet and he shall not give interest for that year.
section 49. If a man has taken money from a merchant and has given to
the merchant a field planted with corn or sesame, and said to him,
'Cultivate the field, reap and take for thyself the corn and sesame which
there is,' if the cultivator causes to grow corn or sesame in the field, at
the time of harvest the owner of the field forsooth shall take the corn or
sesame which is in the field and shall give corn for the money which he
took from the merchant, and for its interests and for the dwelling of the
cultivator, to the merchant.
section 50. If the field was cultivated or the field of sesame was
cultivated when he gave it, the owner of the field shall take the corn or
sesame which is in the field and shall return the money and its interests

to the merchant.
section 51. If he has not