If a man has presented a field, garden, house, or goods to his wife, has granted her a deed of gift, her children, after her husband's death, shall not dispute her right; the mother shall leave it after her death to that one of her children whom she loves best.
She shall not leave it to an outsider. If a man's wife, for the sake of another, has caused her husband to be killed, that woman shall be impaled If a man has committed incest with his daughter, that man shall be banished from the city.
If a man has betrothed a maiden to his son and his son has known her, and afterward the man has lain in her bosom, and been caught, that man shall be strangled and she shall be cast into the water. If a man has betrothed a maiden to his son, and his son has not known her, and that man has lain in her bosom, she shall pay her half a mina of silver, and shall pay over to her whatever she brought from her father's house, and the husband of her choice shall marry her. If a man sets his face to disinherit his son and says to the judges, "I will disinherit my son," the judges shall inquire into his record, and if the son has not committed a crime sufficiently grave to cut him off from sonship , the father may not cut off his son from sonship.
If a man's wife bears him children and his maidservant bears him children, and the father during his lifetime says to the children which the maidservant bore him, "My children," and reckons them with the children of his wife, after the father dies the children of the wife and the children of the maidservant shall divide the goods of the father's estates equally. The son of the wife shall have the right of choice a the division. Personal Injury. If a son strikes his father, they shall cut off his hand.
If a man destroys the eye of another man, they shall destroy his eye. If he breaks another man's bone, they shall break his bone. If he destroys the eye of a plebeian or breaks the bone of a plebeian, he shall pay one mina of silver. If he destroys the eye of a man's slave or beaks a bone of a man's slave, he shall pay one-half his price.
If a man knocks out a tooth of a man of his own rank, they shall knock out his tooth If he knocks out a tooth of a plebeian, he shall pay one-third mina of silver If a man has struck a free woman with child, and has caused her to miscarry, he shall pay ten shekels for her miscarriage If that woman die , his daughter shall be killed.
If by a blow he has caused a plebian's daughter to have a miscarriage, he shall pay five shekels of silver. If that woman has died, he shall pay one-half mina of silver.
If he struck a freeman's female slave and has caused her to have a miscarriage, he shall pay two shekels of silver. If that female slave has died, he shall pay one-third mina of silver. Physicians and Malpractice. If a physician operates on a man for a sever wound with a bronze lancet and saves the man's life, or if he opens an abscess in the eye of a man with a bronze lancet and saves that man's eye, he shall receive ten shekels of silver.
If he is a plebeian, he shall receive five shekels. If he is a slave, the owner shall pay two shekels. If a physician operates on a man for a sever wound with a bronze lancet and causes the man's death, or destroys the man's eye, they shall cut off his hand. If a physician operates on a slave for a severe wound and causes his death, he shall restore a slave of equal value. If a builder builds a house for a man and does not make its construction sound, and the house which he has built collapses and causes the death of the owner of the house, the builder shall be put to death.
If a builder builds a house for a man and does not make its construction sound, and a wall cracks, that builder shall strengthen that wall at his own expense. Property and Wage Regulations. If a man has hired an ox, or an ass, and a lion has killed it in the open field, the loss falls on the owner. If a man has hired an ox and has caused its death, by carelessness, or blows, he shall restore ox for ox, to the owner of the ox. If a man has hired an ox, and god has struck it, and it has died, the man that hired the ox shall make affidavit and go free.
If a bull has gone wild and gored a man, and caused his death, there can be no suit against the owner. If a man's ox be a gorer , and has revealed its evil propensity as a gorer , and he has not blunted its horn, or shut up the ox, and then that ox has gored a free man, and caused his death, the owner shall pay half a mina of silver If a man hires a field laborer, he shall pay him eight gur of grain per year. If a man hires a herdsman, he shall pay him six gur of grain per year.
If a man hires on ox to thresh, twenty sila of grain is his daily hire. If a slave has said to his master, "You are not my master," he shall be brought to account as his slave, and his master shall cut off his ear. Code of Hammurabi c. This code was not was not an entirely new set of laws, but a compilation and revision of earlier law codes of the Sumerians and Akkadians Prologue:.
At that time I decreed: Justice 1. Property 6. Irrigation The stele was packed up and shipped to the Louvre in Paris, and within a year it had been translated and widely publicized as the earliest example of a written legal code—one that predated but bore striking parallels to the laws outlined in the Hebrew Old Testament.
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