Hammurabi The code of laws by Hammurabi

1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-3-7481-1093-4
Verlag: Books on Demand
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E-Book, Englisch, 122 Seiten

The Code of Hammurabi is one of the most important monuments in the history of the human race. Containing as it does the laws which were enacted by a king of Babylonia in the third millennium B.C., whose rule extended over the whole of Mesopotamia from the mouths of the rivers Tigris and Euphrates to the Mediterranean coast, we must regard it with interest. But when we reflect that the ancient Hebrew tradition ascribed the migration of Abraham from Ur of the Chaldees to this very period, and clearly means to represent their tribe father as triumphing over this very same Hammurabi (Amraphel, Gen. xiv. 1), we can hardly doubt that these very laws were part of that tradition. At any rate, they must have served to mould and fix the ideas of right throughout that great empire, and so form the state of society in Canaan when, five hundred years later, the Hebrews began to dominate that region.

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Hammurabi, Hammurabi

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INDEX
The numbers refer to the sections of the Code .
Abatement, of rent, for loss of crop, 45 , 46 .
of interest, 48 .
Accidental loss, by storm or deluge, falls on tenant, 45 .
shared by landlord, if before rent is paid, 46 .
by drought, storm, or deluge, postpones payment of debt, 48 .
Adjournment, for production of witnesses, 13 .
not to exceed six months, 13 .
Adoption, of natural son, 185 .
of child of living parents, 186 .
parents may object, 186 .
votary or palace official cannot object, 187 .
by artisan, 188 .
no one can reclaim child, if he has been taught handicraft, 188 .
otherwise can be reclaimed, 189 .
adopted son must be formally acknowledged, 190 .
if not, returns to real parents on death of adoptive father, 190 .
adopted son cannot be cut off without legal process, 191 .
has one-third child’s share, 191 .
but no part of estate, 191 .
repudiation by adopted son severely punished, 192 ff.
Adultery, 129 .
penalty, drowning, 129 .
Agent, relation to principal or merchant—
must keep accounts, 100 .
of money received, 100 .
of interest due, 100 .
if unsuccessful, repays capital only, 101 .
if a loser, repays capital in full, 102 .
if robbed, can be excused payment, 103 .
must keep account of goods, 104 .
stating money value, 104 .
take inventory, 104 .
give receipt, 104 .
pays threefold for his defaults, 106 .
Allotment, to ganger, constable, or tributary, 30 . See Benefice.
Allowances, to divorced wife, 137 .
usufruct of field, garden, and goods.
Alteration of date for repayment, 48 .
called ‘wetting tablet,’ 48 .
Approving lease, 44 . See Lease.
Assault, of gentleman by gentleman, 202 , 203 .
in a quarrel, 206 .
of poor man by poor man, 204 .
of gentleman by slave, 205 .
of pregnant woman, causing miscarriage—
gentle woman, 209 .
poor woman, 211 .
slave, 213 .
causing her death—
gentle woman, 210 .
poor woman, 212 ...