266 MALAY SLAVERY LAW. 
pada itu seperti di-tangkap harimau atau di-patok ular dan barang. 
sa-bagei-nya deri-pada sagala ka-mati-an-nya yang mati jatoh atau 
dengan ikral tuan-nya jikalau barang suatu ahwal-nya pun biar-lah 
maka tiada-lah iya menyilh me-lain-kan taksir atas yang me-minjam 
pada memelehra dia atau dengan karja yang lain deri-pada izin 
tuan-nya jikalau barang suatu ahwal-nya menyibh iya damikian lagi 
handak-nya sagala benatan gyang ber-niawa ada-pun hukum ini ber- 
salah-an dengan hukum meminjam sagala harta seperti senjata 
dan sagala per-kakas per-hias-an tetapi pada kira-kira harga-nya 
jika ter-bakar atau karam dan barang sa-bagei-nya menyilih iya 
sa-tengah dengan harga-nya itu pun jikalau lepas nama taksir der1- 
pada-nya jikalau barang suatu ahwal-nya menyilih iya me-lain-kan 
dengan ikral tuan-nya kapadasagala ka-benasa-an maka tiada-lah 
iya menyilih. 
Chapter the fourteenth—To declare the law regarding those who 
hire the slaves of others without the knowledge of their master. 
—If it is a matter of general notoriety that the slave is in receipt of 
hire or if he pays his earnings to his master or a rate in leu of his 
services, then, should the slave die in such service, or should any- 
thing befall him, the person who hires him is not responsible for his 
value. But if the conditions are not as laid down here, there must 
be restitution of the full value. 
The loan of a slave from his master is like the borrowing of a 
stick or anything else; should anything happen to him, there must 
be compensation. According to one rule of the customary law, the 
compensation shall be the price of thé slave, for the work he was 
put to do was beyond the knowledge of his master. 
If the slave is borrowed withuot any stipulation as to the parti- 
cular work he is to do, and anything happens to him, the borrower 
must make compensation, but it is otherwise if the slave dies by the 
