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ing pigs, kids, or fowls, and accustomed to bite or attack 
children, shall be removed to another place, or killed. 
If the owner be obstinate, and will neither remove nor 
kill the pig, after having been admonished by the magis¬ 
trates, they shall kill the hog, and punish the owner with 
labour, for obstinately keeping such a dangerous hog. 
His punishment shall be such as that specified in the 
twentieth law* 
XXII. Concerning Wild or Stray Pigs. 
There are no pigs without owners. No one shall hunt 
pigs on the mountains, or in the valleys, under the pretext 
that they are without 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 punish¬ 
ment—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 pur¬ 
posing 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 
