"If a builder build a house for some one, and does not construct it properly, and the house which he built fall in and kill its owner, then that builder shall be put to death."

"Until the child married, the father had legal rights to use children for labor for himself or his debtors. Fathers could even choose to sell their children off."

"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 a member of the awilum class struck someone of equal status, they would pay one mina of silver. But if they struck a member of the mushkenum class, they would pay only ten shekels."

"If a man takes a woman to wife, but has no intercourse with her, this woman is no wife to him."