The Oldest Code of Laws in the World: The code of laws promulgated by Hammurabi, King of Babylon, B.C. 2285-2242 — John Shaqi
The Oldest Code of Laws in the World: The code of laws promulgated by Hammurabi, King of Babylon, B.C. 2285-2242Hammurabi, King of Babylonia
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The Oldest Code of Laws in the World: The code of laws promulgated by Hammurabi, King of Babylon, B.C. 2285-2242
Hammurabi, King of Babylonia
Law -- Iraq -- Babylonia -- Sources
section 101. If where he has gone he has not seen prosperity, he shall
make up and return the money he took, and the agent shall give to the
merchant.
section 102. If a merchant has given to the agent money as a favour, and
where he has gone he has seen loss, the full amount of money he shall
return to the merchant.
section 103. If while he goes on his journey the enemy has made him quit
whatever he was carrying, the agent shall swear by the name of God and
shall go free.
section 104. If the merchant has given to the agent corn, wool, oil, or
any sort of goods, to traffic with, the agent shall write down the price
and hand over to the merchant; the agent shall take a sealed memorandum
of the price which he shall give to the merchant.
section 105. If an agent has forgotten and has not taken a sealed
memorandum of the money he has given to the merchant, money that is not
sealed for, he shall not put in his accounts.
section 106. If an agent has taken money from a merchant and his
merchant has disputed with him, that merchant shall put the agent to
account before God and witnesses concerning the money taken, and the
agent shall give to the merchant the money as much as he has taken
threefold.
section 107. If a merchant has wronged an agent and the agent has
returned to his merchant whatever the merchant gave him, the merchant has
disputed with the agent as to what the agent gave him, that agent shall
put the merchant to account before God and witnesses, and the merchant
because he disputed the agent shall give to the agent whatever he has
taken sixfold.
section 108. If a wine merchant has not received corn as the price of
drink, has received silver by the great stone, and has made the price of
drink less than the price of corn, that wine merchant one shall put her
to account and throw her into the water.
section 109. If a wine merchant has collected a riotous assembly in her
house and has not seized those rioters and driven them to the palace,
that wine merchant shall be put to death.
section 110. If a votary, a lady, who is not living in the convent, has
opened a wine shop or has entered a wine shop for drink, that woman one
shall burn her.
section 111. If a wine merchant has given sixty _KA_ of best beer at
harvest time for thirst, she shall take fifty _KA_ of corn.
section 112. If a man stays away on a journey and has given silver,
gold, precious stones, or treasures of his hand to a man, has caused him
to take them for transport, and that man whatever was for transport,
where he has transported has not given and has taken to himself, the
owner of the transported object, that man, concerning whatever he had to
transport and gave not, shall put him to account, and that man shall give
to the owner of the transported object fivefold whatever was given him.
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