Translation:Shulchan Aruch/Choshen Mishpat/401

Paragraph 1- If an ox gored, and then gored a second ox, the first victim and owners are like partners on the ox. How so? If the ox was worth 200 and gored another ox worth 200 and the carcass was worth nothing, the victim would take 100 and the owner of the ox would take 100. If it then gores another ox worth 200 and the carcass was worth nothing, the latter victim would take 100, and the prior victim with the owner would each take 50. If it then gored another ox worth 200 and the carcass was worth nothing, the latter victim would take 100, the victim before him would take 50, and the victim before him and the owner would each take 25. We continue dividing using this formula.

Paragraph 2- If the victim seized the damaging ox to collect half the damage from the ox, he becomes a paid watchman with respect to the ox damaging. If the ox went out and damaged, the first victim would be liable for the damage and the owner would be exempt. How so? If an ox worth 200 gored and caused a loss of 200, and the victim seized to collect 100, and the ox gored again and caused a loss of 140, the latter victim would collect 70 and the first victim that seized would collect the remainder of his damage, which is 30, and the owner would receive 100. The same applies to anything similar. There are those who say there is no distinction between a case where the victim seized or did not, and in all cases the victim would only lose half and the owner would lose the other half.