Quotes about Restitution
According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.
- Cicero
I did not bring you anything torn by wild beasts; I bore the loss myself. And you demanded payment from me for what was stolen by day or night.
- Genesis 31:39
If men are quarreling and one strikes the other with a stone or a fist, and he does not die but is confined to bed,
- Exodus 21:18
then the one who struck him shall go unpunished, as long as the other can get up and walk around outside with his staff. Nevertheless, he must compensate the man for his lost work and see that he is completely healed.
- Exodus 21:19
And if he knocks out the tooth of his manservant or maidservant, he must let the servant go free as compensation for the tooth.
- Exodus 21:27
the owner of the pit shall make restitution; he must pay its owner, and the dead animal will be his.
- Exodus 21:34
If a man’s ox injures his neighbor’s ox and it dies, they must sell the live one and divide the proceeds; they also must divide the dead animal.
- Exodus 21:35
But if it was known that the ox had a habit of goring, yet its owner failed to restrain it, he shall pay full compensation, ox for ox, and the dead animal will be his.
- Exodus 21:36
“If a man steals an ox or a sheep and slaughters or sells it, he must repay five oxen for an ox and four sheep for a sheep.
- Exodus 22:1
But if it happens after sunrise, there is guilt for his bloodshed. A thief must make full restitution; if he has nothing, he himself shall be sold for his theft.
- Exodus 22:3
If what was stolen is actually found alive in his possession—whether ox or donkey or sheep—he must pay back double.
- Exodus 22:4
If a man grazes his livestock in a field or vineyard and allows them to stray so that they graze in someone else’s field, he must make restitution from the best of his own field or vineyard.
- Exodus 22:5