"If a man betroth a girl to his son, and his son have intercourse with her, but he (the father) afterward defile her, and be surprised, then he shall be bound and cast into the water (drowned)."

"If any one take over a waste-lying field to make it arable, but is lazy, and does not make it arable, he shall plow the fallow field in the fourth year, harrow it and till it, and give it back to its …"

"If it causes the death of the son of the owner of the house, they shall put to death the son of that builder."

"If a slave says to the master, 'you are not my master,' the master shall cut off the slave's ear."

"If any one strike the body of a man higher in rank than he, he shall receive sixty blows with an ox-whip in public."