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Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters

Name: Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters
Author: Johns, C. H. W. (Claude Hermann Walter)

Johns, C. H. W. (Claude Hermann Walter)

Assyro-Babylonian letters; Civilization, Assyro-Babylonian -- Sources; Law, Assyro-Babylonian

Death penalty:
  by burning, 56, 157, 97
  by drowning of a woman, 56, 155, 97, 143
  by strangling, 56, 155
  considered as an ancient custom, 96
  for adultery, 54, 133, 142
  for alleged purchase of lost property, 45, 10
  for allowing seditious meetings in beer-shop, 52, 109
  for appropriation of lost property, 45, 9
  for buying from minor or slave, 44, 7
  for conniving at her husband’s murder, impaling, 56, 152
  for dereliction of official duty, 46, 26, 47, 33
  for employing a substitute in official duty, 46, 26, 47, 33
  for harboring fugitive slaves, 5, 16;
    to default the forced labor, 45, 16
  for highway robbery, 46, 22
  for housebreaking, 46, 21
  for kidnapping a child, 45, 14
  for oppressing subordinates, 47, 34
  for perjury, 44, 3
  for procuring desertion of slaves, 45, 15
  for rape of betrothed maiden, 54, 130
  for receiving stolen goods, 44, 6
  for repudiating her husband, 141, 143
  for retaining captured slave, 46, 19
  for sacrilegious theft, 44, 6
  for slander and stirring up strife, 45, 11
  for theft and unable to pay, 44, 8
  for theft at a fire, 46, 25
  for undutifulness and slander, drowning, 55, 143, 143
  for witchcraft, 44, 1
  on adulterers, 54, 129
  on builder for bad work, 64, 229
  on builder’s son, 64, 230
  on votary frequenting beer-shop, 52, 110

Debt:
  abatement for damages by storm, deluge, or drought, 48, 48
  creditor to have no call for year’s interest, 48, 48
  debtor’s obligation not lessened, 49, 52
  laws of Mancipium, 52, 115-117, 53, 118, 119
  question of ante-nuptial, 56, 151
  property held as security for, 263. _See_ Pledges

Debtor:
  how secured against illegal process, 52, 113;
    illegal distraint, 52, 114
  may pay in kind, 51, Z

Debts:
  of husband and wife, mutual obligations, 56, 152
  question of pre-nuptial, 56, 151

Decision of judge in lawsuit, 91, 92

Decisions, legal, considered, 100 _sq._

Dedication:
  of land to temple, 223, 224;
    to secure divine favor, 223, 224

Deed. _See_ Bond:
  of gift, with bond, 72, E
  settlement on wife, 132
  with the gifts, 222 _sq._

Defamation of comrade, 57, 161

Deferred payment of debt, 48, 48

Degradation from judgeship, 44, 5

Deification of river Euphrates, 44, 2
  the sacred river, 44, 2

Deposit:
  how recoverable, 53, 123
  from minor or slave, how made legal, 44, 7
  made in temple for safety and banking, 211 _sq._

Desertion:
  by wife, 54, 133
  by husband, who returned to claim the property, 102, 144
  involuntary, of wife by husband, 54, 133, 143
  of adoptive parents, 61, 193
  of city and wife, 54, 136

Detention of slave, penalty death, 46, 19

Diary of a journey, 380

Dike:
  burst and meadow was flooded, 49, 53
  to be cared for, 199

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Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and LettersJohns, C. H. W. (Claude Hermann Walter)

History

Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters

Johns, C. H. W. (Claude Hermann Walter)

Assyro-Babylonian letters; Civilization, Assyro-Babylonian -- Sources; Law, Assyro-Babylonian

Death penalty:
  by burning, 56, 157, 97
  by drowning of a woman, 56, 155, 97, 143
  by strangling, 56, 155
  considered as an ancient custom, 96
  for adultery, 54, 133, 142
  for alleged purchase of lost property, 45, 10
  for allowing seditious meetings in beer-shop, 52, 109
  for appropriation of lost property, 45, 9
  for buying from minor or slave, 44, 7
  for conniving at her husband’s murder, impaling, 56, 152
  for dereliction of official duty, 46, 26, 47, 33
  for employing a substitute in official duty, 46, 26, 47, 33
  for harboring fugitive slaves, 5, 16;
    to default the forced labor, 45, 16
  for highway robbery, 46, 22
  for housebreaking, 46, 21
  for kidnapping a child, 45, 14
  for oppressing subordinates, 47, 34
  for perjury, 44, 3
  for procuring desertion of slaves, 45, 15
  for rape of betrothed maiden, 54, 130
  for receiving stolen goods, 44, 6
  for repudiating her husband, 141, 143
  for retaining captured slave, 46, 19
  for sacrilegious theft, 44, 6
  for slander and stirring up strife, 45, 11
  for theft and unable to pay, 44, 8
  for theft at a fire, 46, 25
  for undutifulness and slander, drowning, 55, 143, 143
  for witchcraft, 44, 1
  on adulterers, 54, 129
  on builder for bad work, 64, 229
  on builder’s son, 64, 230
  on votary frequenting beer-shop, 52, 110

Debt:
  abatement for damages by storm, deluge, or drought, 48, 48
  creditor to have no call for year’s interest, 48, 48
  debtor’s obligation not lessened, 49, 52
  laws of Mancipium, 52, 115-117, 53, 118, 119
  question of ante-nuptial, 56, 151
  property held as security for, 263. _See_ Pledges

Debtor:
  how secured against illegal process, 52, 113;
    illegal distraint, 52, 114
  may pay in kind, 51, Z

Debts:
  of husband and wife, mutual obligations, 56, 152
  question of pre-nuptial, 56, 151

Decision of judge in lawsuit, 91, 92

Decisions, legal, considered, 100 _sq._

Dedication:
  of land to temple, 223, 224;
    to secure divine favor, 223, 224

Deed. _See_ Bond:
  of gift, with bond, 72, E
  settlement on wife, 132
  with the gifts, 222 _sq._

Defamation of comrade, 57, 161

Deferred payment of debt, 48, 48

Degradation from judgeship, 44, 5

Deification of river Euphrates, 44, 2
  the sacred river, 44, 2

Deposit:
  how recoverable, 53, 123
  from minor or slave, how made legal, 44, 7
  made in temple for safety and banking, 211 _sq._

Desertion:
  by wife, 54, 133
  by husband, who returned to claim the property, 102, 144
  involuntary, of wife by husband, 54, 133, 143
  of adoptive parents, 61, 193
  of city and wife, 54, 136

Detention of slave, penalty death, 46, 19

Diary of a journey, 380

Dike:
  burst and meadow was flooded, 49, 53
  to be cared for, 199

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