"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 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."

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

"If a man has harbored a runaway slave, male or female, in his house and has not brought him forth at the summons of the public crier, the owner of the house shall be put to death."