The Oldest Code of Laws in the World: The Code of Laws Promulgated by Ḫammurabi, King of Babylon, B.C. 2285-2242 |
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abscess ASSYRIOLOGY Babylonia boatman borne children borne him children bronze lancet brothers caused the loss consent constable corn or money corn or sesame corn per GAN cows cultivator debt deed distraint doctor has treated dwelling Elamite fate father has gone father-in-law father's house field five shekels forsooth ganger garden gave gentle birth gentleman's servant go free granted him children GUR of corn Hammurabi hand hired an ox holy river judgement king lost property maid maidservant manservant Marduk marriage portion mina of silver money he paid mother numbered owner ox or sheep palace warder pay half pay one-third poor put to death ransom regains his city render back ŠE of silver seized set his face severe wound share shekels of silver shepherd silver per diem sixty GUR slave sonship struck the strength Susa swear take a concubine take her marriage taken a wife vowed woman wet nurse wine merchant
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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 48 - If a builder has built a house for a man and has completed it, he shall give him as his fee two shekels of silver per SAR of house. § 229. 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 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 26 - ... 134. If a man has been taken captive, but there was not maintenance in his house, and his wife has entered into the house of another, that woman has no blame. § 135. If a man has been taken captive, but there was no maintenance in his house for his wife, and she has entered into the house of another, and has borne him children, if in the future her [first] husband shall return and regain his city, that woman shall return to her first husband, but the children shall follow their own father.
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 23 - If a man give anything of his on deposit, and at the place of deposit either by burglary or pillage he suffer loss in common with the owner of the house, the owner of the house who has been negligent and has lost what was given to him on deposit shall make good (the loss) and restore (it) to the owner of the goods ; the owner of the house shall institute a search for what has been lost and take it from the thief.
Page 44 - If a man has struck a man in a quarrel, and has caused him a wound, that man shall swear ' I do not strike him knowing ' and shall answer for the doctor.
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 45 - If the doctor has treated a gentleman for a severe wound with a lancet of bronze and has caused the gentleman to die, or has opened an abscess of the eye for a gentleman with the bronze lancet and has caused the loss of the gentleman's eye, one shall cut off his hands.