A History of Ancient Near Eastern Law
in legal sources. A partial exception is found in NG 6, where a wife suffering from an incurable disease selects another wife fo ...
reported to have taken the oath in both cases when he married off his son and daughter to another man’s daughter and son. There ...
ver to the jilted bride. For the same offence after the groom has entered his house (for the wedding ceremonies?), LU 15 imposes ...
5.1.3 Dissolution The verb tag 4 is used of dissolution of marriage by the husband or by order of the court (NG 205:25: ba-tag 4 ...
5.2.2 It was possible to take a child for rearing (nam-bulug-“è) with- out adopting it, as NG 27 shows. 5.2.3 Adoption by one wo ...
upon the rank of the beneficiary. These prebends were in theory inalienable, being granted only in exchange for the beneficiary’ ...
174:6–18) and the right to redeem a slave from a creditor (NG 28). Liabilities included a contract to provide services (NG 27).^ ...
6.2.5 Female Inheritance 6.2.5.1 Sources of Property A daughter did not in principle inherit a share of her father’s estate, exc ...
mer explains Sigrist 3, where a widow forfeits her husband’s estate (“house”) to her son upon her remarriage to a “stranger” (kú ...
7.1 Sale^103 7.1.1 Private legal documents (and trial reports) record sales of houses, orchards, slaves, cattle, and donkeys. Th ...
The role of payment in the contract is highlighted by a clause in a few documents from Umma: “he (buyer) has completed the sil- ...
7.1.4 Breach Although the documents describe an executed contract, there remained various contingencies for which a party could ...
7.2.2 Legal Basis The most common form suggests that loan was a real contract: it was the receipt of funds that generated the ob ...
7.2.4 Repayment About half the documents have repayment clauses. Agricultural loans were payable “after the harvest” or “at the ...
7.3 Pledge^123 The attested pledges are antichretic in character: the income from the pledge served as interest. Arable land, al ...
therefore, that the legal basis of the obligation was a promissory oath. Suretyship had a wide range of applications, as noted b ...
is not stated. The consequences of default, where expressed, vary: substitution (UET 3 22 = Sauren, no. 20) or payment of a set ...
7.6.1.3 A special oath by the tenant to cultivate the land is some- times recorded (e.g., TuM n.F. 1/2 250 = Steinkeller, “Ur II ...
7.7 Oath The promissory oath is used to secure a wide variety of unilateral obligations. The most important is not to abscond (B ...
The language of the law indicates, as an analogous ruling in the Middle Assyrian Laws (A 14) confirms, that intercourse took pla ...
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