A History of Ancient Near Eastern Law
are members of the qenbetcourts.^117 A herald still appears in such texts as P. Berlin 10470, just as in the Middle Kingdom,^118 ...
New Kingdom there is a basic change in the police bureaucracy. The Medjay,^129 Nubians organized in quasi-military troops, assum ...
“the people of the town who heard the matter.”^142 In P. Gurob II, 2, the court (council of judges of the Temple of Osiris) is c ...
2.4.3.1 The court was also where private individuals registered or confirmed transactions and declarations concerning immovables ...
Sometimes an offender is repeatedly brought up on the same charge, as happens to an adulterer.^167 In O. Gardiner 53, a man is s ...
judge in a dispute concerning a donkey.^176 A “scribe of the mat,” whose function is obscure, appears rather often in New Kingdo ...
The “riverbank” in Deir el-Medina is perhaps where interrogations are conducted,^188 while in the trials of the tomb robbers, th ...
3.2 Procedure 3.2.1 In private law, it was probably the responsibility of the injured party to bring the issue to court.^198 The ...
3.2.2 Lawyers, that is, professional advocates for a defendant, are not attested in ancient Egypt.^206 There are a few examples ...
3.2.5 Legal precedent is cited in P. Bulaq X^215 and O. Nash 1. The writer of the letter in O. Nash 1 urges the vizier to impose ...
3.3 Evidence^224 3.3.1 Witnesses Witnesses (either male or, less commonly, female)^225 are extremely important in Egyptian law.^ ...
preserving documents dating back centuries.^235 In that text, a court document from the reign of Horemheb is presented as eviden ...
betcourt of the temple.” Another copy was made for the “Great Court of Thebes,” where the records of such property deeds were po ...
He proceeds with a report of theft and seduction in the Valley of the Kings. 3.3.3.2 Oaths could be sworn in numerous places, in ...
to indicate a manifestation of a god to a person who has in some way been sacrilegious and sinned. The most usual cause of such ...
P S 4.1 Citizenship While the Egyptians distinguished themselves from the inhabitants of other countries^267 and w ...
of nm ̇.w, “free persons” of the land of the pharaoh.^274 This change of status, initiated by the woman herself, enables them to ...
tombs and sell them as they please.^282 The Legal Text of Mes shows that law courts acknowledged women’s rights to tenure of lan ...
(c) One woman declares that when her father learned that her hus- band was robbing the tombs, he forbade the thief to enter the ...
P. Cairo 65739 records a trial at Thebes wherein a soldier accuses a woman of using another lady’s property to purchase two slav ...
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