Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents 1
3. Acknowledgements 5
4. Typographical Conventions 7
5. Abbreviations 8
6. The Manuscripts 11
7. Introduction 15
8. The Legal Corpus and Questions of Method 17
9. The Lexical Field of Theft 41
10. Style, Text Strategy, Syntax, and Theft-lexemes 54
11. Collocation Patterns of Theft-lexemes 87
12. The Latin Translation Evidence of the Law-codes 133
13. Summary and Agenda 146
14. Appendix A 161
15. Appendix B 165
16. Appendix C 169
17. Appendix D 176
18. Appendix E 178
19. Glossary 180
20. Bibliography 185
21. Quotation Index (Primary Sources) 197