If two territories contend about a boundary or a field, let the judges consider it and they shall decide in favor of the territory which had thee longer possession; but if there is an ancient landmark, let the ancient determination remain unassailed.
If a division wronged people in their lots or lands, let them have license to undo the division.
If a farmer on shares reaps without the grantor’s consent and robs him of his sheaves, as a thief shall he be deprived of all his crop.
A share holder’s portion is nine bundles, the grantor’s one: he who divides outside these limits is accursed.
If a man takes land from an Indigent farmer and agrees to plow only and to divide, let their agreement prevail; if they also agreed on sowing, let it prevail according to their agreement.
If a farmer takes from some indigent farmer, his vineyard to work on a half share and does not prune it as is filling and dig it and fence it and dig it over, let him receive nothing from the produce….
If a farmer takes over the farming of a vineyard or piece of land and agrees with the owner and takes earnest-money and starts and then draws back and gives it up, let him give the just value of the field and let the owner have the field.
If a farmer enters and works another farmer’s woodland, for three years he shall take its profits for himself and then give the land back again to its owner.
If a farmer who is too poor to work his own vineyard takes flight and goes abroad, let those from whom claims are made by the public treasury gather in the grapes, and the farmer if he returns shall not be entitled to mulct them In the wine.
Extraordinary taxes of the public treasury
If a farmer who runs away from his own field pays every year the extraordinary taxes of the public treasury, let those who gather in the grapes and occupy the field be mulcted twofold.
Concerning Herdsmen. If a neat herd in the morning receives an ox front a farmer and mixes it with the herd, and it happens that the ox is destroyed by a wolf, let him explain the accident to its master and he himself shall go harmless.
If a herdsman who has received an ox loses it and on the same clay on which the ox was lost does not give notice to the master of the ox that “I kept sight of the ox up to this or that point, but what is become of it I do not know,” let him not go harmless, but, if he gave notice, let him go harmless.
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