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 193. If a son of a palace warder, or of a vowed woman, has known
his father's house, and has hated the father that brought him up or the
mother that brought him up, and has gone off to the house of his father,
one shall tear out his eye.
section 194. If a man has given his son to a wet nurse, that son has
died in the hand of the wet nurse, the wet nurse without consent of his
father and his mother has procured another child, one shall put her to
account, and because, without consent of his father and his mother, she
has procured another child, one shall cut off her breasts.
section 195. If a man has struck his father, his hands one shall cut
off.
section 196. If a man has caused the loss of a gentleman's eye, his eye
one shall cause to be lost.
section 197. If he has shattered a gentleman's limb, one shall shatter
his limb.
section 198. If he has caused a poor man to lose his eye or shattered a
poor man's limb, he shall pay one mina of silver.
section 199. If he has caused the loss of the eye of a gentleman's
servant or has shattered the limb of a gentleman's servant, he shall pay
half his price.
section 200. If a man has made the tooth of a man that is his equal to
fall out, one shall make his tooth fall out.
section 201. If he has made the tooth of a poor man to fall out, he
shall pay one-third of a mina of silver.
section 202. If a man has struck the strength of a man who is great
above him, he shall be struck in the assembly with sixty strokes of a cow-
hide whip.
section 203. If a man of gentle birth has struck the strength of a man
of gentle birth who is like himself, he shall pay one mina of silver.
section 204. If a poor man has struck the strength of a poor man, he
shall pay ten shekels of silver.
section 205. If a gentleman's servant has struck the strength of a free-
man, one shall cut off his ear.
section 206. If a man has struck a man in a quarrel, and has caused him
a wound, that man shall swear 'I do not strike him knowing' and shall
answer for the doctor.
section 207. If he has died of his blows, he shall swear, and if he be
of gentle birth he shall pay half a mina of silver.
section 208. If he be the son of a poor man, he shall pay one-third of a
mina of silver.
section 209. If a man has struck a gentleman's daughter and caused her
to drop what is in her womb, he shall pay ten shekels of silver for what
was in her womb.
section 210. If that woman has died, one shall put to death his
daughter.
section 211. If the daughter of a poor man through his blows he has
caused to drop that which is in her womb, he shall pay five shekels of
silver.
section 212. If that woman has died, he shall pay half a mina of silver.
section 213. If he has struck a gentleman's maidservant and caused her
to drop that which is in her womb, he shall pay two shekels of silver.
section 214. If that maidservant has died, he shall pay one-third of a
mina of silver.
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