| 1 | ... interest for the money, as much as he has received, he shall give a note therefor, and on the day, when they settle, pay to the merchant. |
| 2 | If there are no mercantile arrangements in the place whither he went, he shall leave the entire amount of money which he received with the broker to give to the merchant. |
| 3 | If a merchant entrust money to an agent (broker) for some investment, and the broker suffer a loss in the place to which he goes, he shall make good the capital to the merchant. |
| 4 | If, while on the journey, an enemy take away from him anything that he had, the broker shall swear by God and be free of obligation. |
| 5 | If a merchant give an agent corn, wool, oil, or any other goods to transport, the agent shall give a receipt for the amount, and compensate the merchant therefor. Then he shall obtain a receipt form the merchant for the money that he gives the merchant. |
| 6 | If the agent is careless, and does not take a receipt for the money which he gave the merchant, he can not consider the unreceipted money as his own. |
| 7 | If the agent accept money from the merchant, but have a quarrel with the merchant (denying the receipt), then shall the merchant swear before God and witnesses that he has given this money to the agent, and the agent shall pay him three times the sum. |
| 8 | If the merchant cheat the agent, in that as the latter has returned to him all that had been given him, but the merchant denies the receipt of what had been returned to him, then shall this agent convict the merchant before God and the judges, and if he still deny receiving what the agent had given him shall pay six times the sum to the agent. |
| 9 | If a tavern-keeper (feminine) does not accept corn according to gross weight in payment of drink, but takes money, and the price of the drink is less than that of the corn, she shall be convicted and thrown into the water. |
| 10 | If conspirators meet in the house of a tavern-keeper, and these conspirators are not captured and delivered to the court, the tavern-keeper shall be put to death. |
| 11 | If a "sister of a god" open a tavern, or enter a tavern to drink, then shall this woman be burned to death. |
| 12 | If an inn-keeper furnish sixty ka of usakani-drink to ... she shall receive fifty ka of corn at the harvest. |
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