Chapter VIII: Section IV: Damages: including a great part of the civil and

criminal law. It treats of the law of trover, of buying and
selling, and the ordinary monetary transactions. Further, of the
greatest crime known to the law, viz., idolatry. Next of witnesses,
of oaths, of legal punishments, and of the Sanhedrin itself. This
section concludes with the so-called "Sentences of the Fathers,"
containing some of the sublimest ethical dicta known in the history
of religious philosophy.