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Chapter XXI · THE LESSER LAW (continued).

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CHAPTER XXI. THE LESSER LAW (continued).

II. Rights of the Person, xxi. 1–32.

The Hebrew slave. The seventh year. Year of jubilee. His family, 340.—The ear pierced. St. Paul’s “marks of the Lord.” Assaults, 341.—The Gentile slave, 342. The female slave, 342–3.—Murder and blood-fiends, 343.—Parents. Kidnappers, 344.—Eye for eye. Mitigations of lex talionis, 344–5.—Vicious cattle, 346.

III. Rights of Property, xxi. 33–xxii. 15.

Negligence: indirect responsibility: various examples, 346–8.—Theft, 348.

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