"If a man strike a man's daughter and bring about a miscarriage, he shall pay ten shekels of silver for her miscarriage.If that woman die, they shall put his daughter to death.If, through a stroke, he bring about a miscarriage to the daughter of a freeman, he shall pay five shekels of silver.If that woman die, he shall pay one-half mana of silver.If he strike the female slave of a man and bring about a miscarriage, he shall pay two shekels of silver.If that female slave die, he shall pay one-third mana of silver."
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(1755–1750 BC), 209–214; Robert Francis Harper, The Code of Hammurabi, King of Babylon, 2nd ed. (1904), p. 77
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