its tail, or pierced its nostrils, he shall pay a quarter of its price.

section 249. If a man has hired an ox, and God has struck it and it has
died, the man who has hired the ox shall swear before God and shall go
free.

section 250. If a wild bull in his charge has gored a man and caused him
to die, that case has no remedy.

section 251. If the ox has pushed a man, by pushing has made known his
vice, and he has not blunted his horn, has not shut up his ox, and that
ox has gored a man of gentle birth and caused him to die, he shall pay
half a mina of silver.

section 252. If a gentleman's servant, he shall pay one-third of a mina
of silver.

section 253. If a man has hired a man to reside in his field and has
furnished him seed, has entrusted him the oxen and harnessed them for
cultivating the field--if that man has stolen the corn or plants, and
they have been seized in his hands, one shall cut off his hands.

section 254. If he has taken the seed, worn out the oxen, from the seed
which he has hoed he shall restore.

section 255. If he has hired out the oxen of the man or has stolen the
corn and has not caused it to grow in the field, that man one shall put
him to account and he shall measure out sixty _GUR_ of corn _per GAN_ of
land.