The Oldest Code of Laws in the World, the Code of Laws Promulgated by Hammurabi, King of Babylon, B.C. 2285-2242 |
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OLDEST CODE OF LAWS IN THE WOR King Of Babylonia Hammurabi,C. H. W. (Claude Hermann Walter) Johns No preview available - 2016 |
OLDEST CODE OF LAWS IN THE WOR King Of Babylonia Hammurabi,C. H. W. (Claude Hermann Walter) Johns No preview available - 2016 |
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Page 48 - If a builder build a house for a man and do not make its construction firm and the house which he has built collapse and cause the death of the owner of the house — that builder shall be put to death.
Page 1 - If a man has put a spell upon a man, and has not justified himself, he upon whom the spell is laid shall go to the holy river, he shall plunge into the holy river, and if the holy river overcome him, he who wove the spell upon him shall take to himself his house. If the holy river makes that man to be innocent, and has saved him, he who laid the spell upon him shall be put to death.
Page 48 - If a builder has built a house for a man and has not made strong his work, and the house he built has fallen, and he has caused the death of the owner of the house, that builder shall be put to death.
Page 45 - If he be the son of a poor man, he shall pay one-third of a mina of silver. 209. If a man has struck a gentleman's daughter and caused her to drop what is in her womb, he shall pay ten shekels of silver for what was in her womb. 210. If that woman has died, one shall put to death his daughter.
Page 4 - God what they know; and if the giver has acted the thief he shall be put to death, the owner of the lost property shall take his lost property, the buyer shall take the money he paid from the house of the giver.
Page 5 - If claimant cannot bring witnesses, seeing he has slandered and stirred up strife, to be put to death. 14. 'If a man has stolen the son of a freeman, he shall be put to death.
Page 27 - ... that her children are grown up, from whatever is given to her children they shall give her a share like that of one son, and she shall marry the husband of her choice.
Page 15 - ... 57. If a shepherd has caused the sheep to feed on the green corn, has not come to an agreement with the owner of the field, without the consent of the owner of the field has made the sheep feed off the field, the owner shall reap his fields, the shepherd who without consent of the owner of the field has fed off the field with sheep shall give over and above twenty GUR of corn per GAN to the owner of the field.
Page 44 - I do not strike him knowing," and shall answer for the doctor. 207. If he has died of his blows, he shall swear, and if he be of gentle birth he shall pay half a mina of silver.
Page 27 - I put her away,' he shall put her away and she shall go her way, he shall not give her any thing, for her divorce. If her husband has not said ' I put her away,' her husband shall marry another woman, that woman as a maidservant shall dwell in the house of her husband. § 142. If a woman hates her husband and has said ' Thou shalt not possess me,' one shall enquire into her past what is her lack, and if she has been economical and has no vice, and her husband has gone out and greatly belittled her,...