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 33. If either a governor or a magistrate has taken to himself
the men of the levy, or has accepted and sent on the king's errand a
hired substitute, that governor or magistrate shall be put to death.
section 34. If either a governor or a magistrate has taken to himself
the property of a ganger, has plundered a ganger, has given a ganger to
hire, has stolen from a ganger in a judgement by high-handedness, has
taken to himself the gift the king has given the ganger, that governor or
magistrate shall be put to death.
section 35. If a man has bought the cattle or sheep which the king has
given to the ganger from the hand of the ganger, he shall be deprived of
his money.
section 36. The field, garden, and house of a ganger, or constable, or a
tributary, he shall not give for money.
section 37. If a man has bought the field, garden, or house of a ganger,
a constable, or a tributary, his tablet shall be broken and he shall be
deprived of his money. The field, garden, or house he shall return to
its owner.
section 38. The ganger, constable, or tributary shall not write off to
his wife, or his daughter, from the field, garden, or house of his
business, and he shall not assign it for his debt.
section 39. From the field, garden, and house which he has bought and
acquired, he may write off to his wife or his daughter and give for his
debt.
section 40. A votary, merchant, or foreign sojourner may sell his field,
his garden, or his house; the buyer shall carry on the business of the
field, garden, or house which he has bought.
section 41. If a man has bartered for the field, garden, or house of a
ganger, constable, or tributary, and has given exchanges, the ganger,
constable, or tributary shall return to his field, garden, or house, and
shall keep the exchanges given him.
section 42. If a man has taken a field to cultivate and has not caused
the corn to grow in the field, and has not done the entrusted work on the
field, one shall put him to account and he shall give corn like its
neighbour.
section 43. If he has not cultivated the field and has left it to
itself, he shall give corn like its neighbour to the owner of the field,
and the field he left he shall break up with hoes and shall harrow it and
return to the owner of the field.
section 44. If a man has taken on hire an unreclaimed field for three
years to open out, and has left it aside, has not opened the field, in
the fourth year he shall break it up with hoes, he shall hoe it, and
harrow it, and return to the owner of the field, and he shall measure out
ten _GUR_ of corn _per GAN_.
section 45. If a man has given his field for produce to a cultivator,
and has received the produce of his field, and afterwards a thunderstorm
has ravaged the field or carried away the produce, the loss is the
cultivator's.
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