http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/MESO/CODE.HTM
1.If any one be too lazy to keep his dam in proper condition, and does not so keep it; if then the dam break and all the fields be flooded, then shall he in whose dam the break occurred be sold for money, and the money shall replace the corn which he has caused to be ruined.
It was the original person's fault that the crops of others were ruined, so he should have to compensate them.
2.If any one steal the minor son of another, he shall be put to death.
Kidnapping is bad and kidnappers should be punished.
3.If persons are stolen, then shall the community and . . . pay one mina of silver to their relatives.
The community should help the families of those who are kidnapped.
4.If fire break out in a house, and some one who comes to put it out cast his eye upon the property of the owner of the house, and take the property of the master of the house, he shall be thrown into that self-same fire.
A peson whose house is on fire already has enough to deal with and shouldn't have to worry about a thief. The thief should be punished.
5. If a man violate the wife (betrothed or child-wife) of another man, who has never known a man, and still lives in her father's house, and sleep with her and be surprised, this man shall be put to death, but the wife is blameless.
Rape is very bad and rapists should be punished.
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