section 277. If a man has hired a ship of sixty _GUR_, he shall give one-
sixth of a shekel of silver _per diem_ as her hire.

section 278. If a man has bought a manservant or a maidservant, and he
has not fulfilled his month and the _bennu_ sickness has fallen upon him,
he shall return him to the seller, and the buyer shall take the money he
paid.

section 279. If a man has bought a manservant or a maidservant and has a
complaint, his seller shall answer the complaint.

section 280. If a man has bought in a foreign land the manservant or the
maidservant of a man, when he has come into the land, and the owner of
the manservant or the maidservant has recognised his manservant or his
maidservant, if the manservant or maidservant are natives without price
he shall grant them their freedom.

section 281. If they are natives of another land the buyer shall tell
out before God the money he paid, and the owner of the manservant or the
maidservant shall give to the merchant the money he paid, and shall
recover his manservant or his maidservant.

section 282. If a slave has said to his master 'Thou art not my master,'
as his slave one shall put him to account and his master shall cut off
his ear.

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The judgements of righteousness which Hammurabi the mighty king confirmed