The usual mode of protecting a well in the East was probably then, as now, by building around it a low circular wall.

LAWS CONCERNING THE RIGHTS OF PROPERTY.

The legislation transitions from rights of persons to rights of property easily and…

And if a man shall open a pit. He lists further cases of damage inflicted, in which restitution is to be demanded from the person who caus…

If a man shall open a pit
That has been dug in time past, and filled up again, or take the covering from it, and lea…

The cases mentioned here give rules of justice that were applicable then and are still in use for deciding similar matters. These laws teach us tha…