This is the only mutilation prescribed by the Law of Moses, unless we except the retaliation prescribed as a punishment for the infliction on anoth…

Deuteronomy 25:5–10. LEVIRATE MARRIAGES.

If brethren dwell together. — This law is ma…

Then thou shall cut off her hand
Which was to be done not by the man that strove with her husband, or by any bystand…

The custom here regulated seems to have been in the Jewish law in order to keep inheritances distinct; now it is unlawful.