Stumbled upon this a few weeks back.  Saved it to share with
someone...guess its you guyz.

-jc

The Code of Hammurabi

                                                Translated by L. W. King



         228. If a builder build a house for some one and complete it,
he shall give him a fee
     of two shekels in money for each sar of surface.

         229 If a builder build a house for some one, and does not
construct it properly, and
     the house which he built fall in and kill its owner, then that
builder shall be put to death.

         230. If it kill the son of the owner the son of that builder
shall be put to death.

         231. If it kill a slave of the owner, then he shall pay slave
for slave to the owner of
     the house.

         232. If it ruin goods, he shall make compensation for all that
has been ruined, and
     inasmuch as he did not construct properly this house which he built
and it fell, he shall
     re-erect the house from his own means.

         233. If a builder build a house for some one, even though he
has not yet completed
     it; if then the walls seem toppling, the builder must make the
walls solid from his own
     means.