section 237 · 203 of 248
The Code of Hammurabi
English, translated by C. H. W. Johns — Johns, The Oldest Code of Laws in the World, Edinburgh, 1903
If a man has hired a boatman and ship, and with corn, wool, oil, dates, or whatever it be as freight, has freighted her, that boatman has been careless and grounded the ship, or has caused what is in her to be lost, the boatman shall render back the ship which he has grounded and whatever in her he has caused to be lost.