Frozen. Thawed. Not dead: Jean Hilliard’s amazing Minnesota story (mprnews.org) When you Google the small town of Lengby, there’s pretty much just one result that pops up, something that happened almost 40 years ago. The accounts online call it a miracle.
If any one take over a waste-lying field to make it arable, but is lazy, and does not make it arable, he shall plow the fallow field in the fourth year, harrow it and till it, and give it back to its owner, and for each ten gan (a measure of area) ten gur of grain shall be paid.
If any one take over a field to till it, and obtain no harvest therefrom, it must be proved that he did no work on the field, and he must deliver grain, just as his neighbor raised, to the owner of the field.