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owners. The wild pigs in the woods (or ravines) whose owners are not 
known, belong to the people of the valley. When the original proprietor 
is known, though the pigs may have become wild, they are still his. If 
one of such pigs be destroyed, (or eaten) it shall be paid for; the parties 
who took it shall make restitution with a pig equal in size to that which 
has been destroyed. The man who is obstinate in hunting pigs on the 
mountains or in the valleys, on the pretext that they are pigs without 
owners, he is the same as a thief; and as is the thief’s such also (shall be) 
his punishment—that (which is) written in the second law. 
XXIII. Concerning Conspiracy. 
When one man knows that another man is planning or purposing to 
murder the king, or is devising to kill any other person, or is planning to 
steal property, or is purposing to commit any other crime; if he keep such 
counsel or deed planned in his own heart, and does not reveal it, or, 
when he is questioned, he conceals, and does not fully declare what he 
knows, he is like such men, and his punishment shall be equal to that 
adjudged to those who have engaged in such conspiracy (or criminal 
design.) 
XXIV. Concerning the Man who makes known. 
If a number of persons shall form their plans—if two in their plan, 
then two; if three, then three; if ten, then ten—if, when they have 
devised the commission of any crime, one of their number shall go to the 
magistrate, and shall fully disclose unto him the purpose and plan formed 
(if he be not the foundation of that combination, if he be not the person 
who [first] devised it,) that man shall not be punished. But those who 
do not confess shall receive judgment. 
XXV. Concerning the unauthorized Climbing for Food. 
Climb not, unauthorized, another person’s tree for food; the man who does 
this is criminal. To beg, to ask explicitly the owner of the land (is right.) 
The man who steals food in a garden—or by the side of the house, takes 
that which is not given by the owner of the land. If the proprietor of the 
land desire that he may be tried, he shall be tried, and punished with 
labour. For food' stolen from a garden—for the owner of the enclosure he 
shall perform labour, such as erecting a fence, the length being regu¬ 
lated by the value of the food stolen. But if it was food growing, or 
unenclosed, he shall make forty fathoms of road, or four fathoms of stone¬ 
work. 
XXVI. Concerning Revenue for, the King and Governors. 
Every land that has received the word- of God, and those that have not, 
whose institutions are good, agree that it is right to furnish property for 
their own king, who holds the government, and for the governors of the 
