A History of Ancient Near Eastern Law
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183 MESOPOTAMIA NEO-SUMERIAN PERIOD (UR III) Bertrand Lafont and Raymond Westbrook^1 S The legal sources of this period ...
1.2 Trial Reports 1.2.1 Special to this period are official records of trials, which were preserved in state archives. Most publ ...
1.4 Contracts Over a thousand private contracts have now been published. More than half are loan documents, followed by sale—of ...
applies properly speaking only to the last third of the reign of Shulgi, after the latter in a number of military expeditions ha ...
The members of the royal family played an important role in the machinery of government, as is shown by the activities of the “S ...
188 2.4 The Administration Although the sources are restricted to the public sector, it is possi- ble to discern fai ...
a seal impression) on administrative documents.^23 There was a marked tendency to record in writing all transactions and adminis ...
190 of the cult; administration of justice. For all these functions he had at his disposal specialized offices.^24 I ...
- ( ) 191 and from other wealth that they exploited. Together they controlled most of the agricultural la ...
The provincial dues for the bala were delivered either to Puzri“- Dagan or, if the central administration decided that a neighbo ...
2.5 The Courts 2.5.1 Judicial authority was a royal prerogative usually delegated to the provincial governors (ensik) or otherwi ...
L 3.1 Parties Access to the courts appears to have been available without dis- tinction as to gender or class. Slaves ...
Name of the king! If I owe you half a grain, I shall pay you two minas” (NATN 571). It was not decisive.^51 3.2.5 Where the cour ...
3.3.3 LU §a3 (/29) provides that a witness who testifies but then refuses to take the oath must pay the compensation at issue in ...
ordeal (íd-lú-ru-gú-“è) or returning from it (íd-lú-ru-gú-ta). An admin- istrative document records the safe return of two court ...
4.2 Class A large part of the population, if not the majority, were dependants of the state and the great institutional estates. ...
4.4.2 Status Although slaves were regarded as property that could be sold, hired, pledged, and inherited, they were accorded som ...
4.4.4 Treatment 4.4.4.1 Slaves could acquire and hold property, but as a peculium from the owner. The slave could make transacti ...
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