Code of Law of Hammurabi


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1If any one buy a male or female slave, and before a month has elapsed the benu-disease be developed, he shall return the slave to the seller, and receive the money which he had paid.
2If any one by a male or female slave, and a third party claim it, the seller is liable for the claim.
3If while in a foreign country a man buy a male or female slave belonging to another of his own country; if when he return home the owner of the male or female slave recognize it: if the male or female slave be a native of the country, he shall give them back without any money.
4If they are from another country, the buyer shall declare the amount of money paid therefor to the merchant, and keep the male or female slave.
5If a slave say to his master: "You are not my master," if they convict him his master shall cut off his ear.