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 180. If a father to his daughter a votary, bride, or vowed woman
has not granted a marriage portion, after the father has gone to his
fate, she shall share in the goods of the father's house a share like one
son, as long as she lives she shall enjoy, after her it is her brothers'
forsooth.
section 181. If a father has vowed to God a votary, hierodule, or _NU-
BAR_, and has not granted her a marriage portion, after the father has
gone to his fate she shall share in the goods of the father's house one-
third of her sonship share and shall enjoy it as long as she lives, after
her it is her brothers' forsooth.
section 182. If a father, to his daughter, a votary of Marduk, of
Babylon, has not granted her a marriage portion, has not written her a
deed, after the father has gone to his fate, she shall share with her
brothers in the goods of the father's house, one-third of her sonship
share, and shall pay no tax; a votary of Marduk, after her, shall give
wherever it is good to her.
section 183. If a father to his daughter, a concubine, has granted her a
marriage portion, has given her to a husband, has written her a deed,
after the father has gone to his fate, she shall not share in the goods
of the father's house.
section 184. If a man to his daughter, a concubine, has not granted a
marriage portion, has not given her to a husband, after the father has
gone to his fate, her brothers according to the capacity of the father's
house, shall grant her a marriage portion and shall give her to a
husband.
section 185. If a man has taken a young child 'from his waters' to
sonship, and has reared him up, no one has any claim against that
nursling.
section 186. If a man has taken a young child to sonship, and when he
took him his father and mother rebelled, that nursling shall return to
his father's house.
section 187. The son of a _NER-SE-GA_, a palace warder, or the son of a
vowed woman no one has any claim upon.
section 188. If an artisan has taken a son to bring up, and has caused
him to learn his handicraft, no one has any claim.
section 189. If he has not caused him to learn his handicraft, that
nursling shall return to his father's house.
section 190. If a man the child whom he took to his sonship and has
brought him up, has not numbered him with his sons, that nursling shall
return to his father's house.
section 191. If a man, after a young child whom he has taken to his
sonship and brought him up, has made a house for himself and acquired
children, and has set his face to cut off the nursling, that child shall
not go his way, the father that brought him up shall give to him from his
goods one-third of his sonship, and he shall go off; from field, garden,
and house he shall not give him.
section 192. If a son of a palace warder, or of a vowed woman, to the
father that brought him up, and the mother that brought him up, has said
'thou art not my father, thou art not my mother,' one shall cut out his
tongue.
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