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 148. If a man has married a wife and a sickness has seized her,
he has set his face to marry a second wife, he may marry her, his wife
whom the sickness has seized he shall not put her away, in the home she
shall dwell, and as long as she lives he shall sustain her.
section 149. If that woman is not content to dwell in the house of her
husband, he shall pay her her marriage portion which she brought from her
father's house, and she shall go off.
section 150. If a man to his wife has set aside field, garden, house, or
goods, has left her a sealed deed, after her husband her children shall
not dispute her, the mother after her to her children whom she loves
shall give, to brothers she shall not give.
section 151. If a woman, who is dwelling in the house of a man, her
husband has bound himself that she shall not be seized on account of a
creditor of her husband's, has granted a deed, if that man before he
married that woman had a debt upon him, the creditor shall not seize his
wife, and if that woman before she entered the man's house had a debt
upon her, her creditor shall not seize her husband.
section 152. If from the time that that woman entered into the house of
the man a debt has come upon them, both together they shall answer the
merchant.
section 153. If a man's wife on account of another male has caused her
husband to be killed, that woman upon a stake one shall set her.
section 154. If a man has known his daughter, that man one shall expel
from the city.
section 155. If a man has betrothed a bride to his son and his son has
known her, and he afterwards has lain in her bosom and one has caught
him, that man one shall bind and cast her into the waters.
section 156. If a man has betrothed a bride to his son and his son has
not known her, and he has lain in her bosom, he shall pay her half a mina
of silver and shall pay to her whatever she brought from her father's
house, and she shall marry the husband of her choice.
section 157. If a man, after his father, has lain in the bosom of his
mother, one shall burn them both of them together.
section 158. If a man, after his father, has been caught in the bosom of
her that brought him up, who has borne children, that man shall be cut
off from his father's house.
section 159. If a man who has brought in a present to the house of his
father-in-law, has given a dowry, has looked upon another woman, and has
said to his father-in-law, 'Thy daughter I will not marry,' the father of
the daughter shall take to himself all that he brought him.
section 160. If a man has brought in a present to the house of his
father-in-law, has given a dowry, and the father of the daughter has
said, 'My daughter I will not give thee,' he shall make up and return
everything that he brought him.
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