A History of Ancient Near Eastern Law
1 INTRODUCTION THE CHARACTER OF ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN LAW Raymond Westbrook P The Ancient Near East and Legal History ...
2 well known; the legacy of much more ancient cultures to classical law is only now coming to light.^2 The law of t ...
3 system (excluding International Law, which is dealt with in separate chapters): the ...
of the individual contributor, but at the same time it is hoped that the History’s standardized system of classification will en ...
1.1 Historical Records 1.1.1 Distribution 1.1.1.1 The vast bulk of our records come from Mesopotamia, in the form of clay tablet ...
1.1.2 Type Two admittedly rough and sometimes contradictory criteria may be employed in assessing the credibility of the histori ...
King Tudhaliyah IV from the late thirteenth century, which exists in one contemporary copy, in Hittite. Not royal, but apparentl ...
8 parties, the claims, significant evidence, and the verdict. They serve practical purposes, private or official. T ...
The Neo-Babylonian Laws (NBL), from Sippar in central Meso- potamia, in Akkadian and dating to the seventh century. The exampl ...
10 well have served some official purpose. It is true that they exist in an eleventh century copy of a fourteenth c ...
11 tain a mixture of paragraphs: some appear to be excerpts from a law code; others ar ...
1.1.2.8 Historiographical Documents A certain amount of legal material is to be gleaned from the mon- umental inscriptions in wh ...
the means used to create legal obligations. Except perhaps toward the very end of our period, documents had no independent role ...
1.2.2 Precedent and Custom There is some evidence that previous decisions were regarded as a source of law. In the epilogue to h ...
an immediate problem. As the scope of the orders widens to the level of universal decrees, so their number diminishes precipitou ...
as land and persons pledged, sold, or enslaved in direct consequence of debt. They could apply to particular cities or to the po ...
1.2.4.1 The provisions of the law codes are direct statements of legal norms. Unlike demonstrably legislative sources such as de ...
For jurisprudence, the starting point was a legal case, perhaps a real case that had been judged by a court (as in the Nippur tr ...
of monumental royal inscriptions, namely propaganda. The stela, set up in a temple, was intended to demonstrate to public opinio ...
In the ancient Near East, on the other hand, a term for jurist is not found, not even in the long lists of professions compiled ...
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