A History of Ancient Near Eastern Law
MESOPOTAMIA OLD BABYLONIAN PERIOD Raymond Westbrook S L The Old Babylonian period is particularly rich in sources, b ...
362 1.2 Edicts Copies of three royal decrees canceling debts have been preserved.^2 The edict of King Ammi-Íaduqa of ...
363 party and retained in the archives of the latter, as proof of the rights, mostly property rights, that ...
364 of his rule rested on a divine mandate to do justice. It has been suggested that the stele of the Laws of Hammur ...
365 2.1.3 The Administration 2.1.3.1 Central administration consisted of the king and his palace officials ...
366 community and were independent of the royal administration, although they were of course subordinate to it and o ...
367 UET 5 203). A charge of burglary was brought directly before Hammurabi, who prepared to hear the evide ...
368 otherwise, there was no special term for a court of law, which was usually referred to simply as “the judges.” 2 ...
369 in the prologue to his law code, stating that he obligated households for seventy days (per year) and ...
370 There are no cases where a slave was a litigant (except where the issue was his slave status). In one case where ...
371 respect to the oath. As in the Neo-Sumerian period, a solemn oath as to the truth of an assertion, imp ...
372 losing party but upon any party who might be tempted to disturb the judgment by raising a claim in connection wi ...
373 3.3 Evidence There were two forms of conventional evidence: witnesses and doc- uments; and two supra-r ...
374 evidence, and the burden of proof would be on the party challeng- ing the document (TCL 1 157:32–41 = UAZP 280). ...
375 3.3.3.3 Breach of the oath led to divine punishment and probably also human (if discovered).^43 Fear o ...
376 injury and theft (254, 256)^46 and a boundary dispute (249). In Elam, it seems to have been used for disputes ov ...
377 4.1.2 The debt and slave release provisions were a privilege confined to native subjects but at the sa ...
378 in connection with the palace. LE 50 and LH 8, 15, 16 penal- ize the theft or misappropriation of slaves and mo ...
379 Yaron has suggested that all provisions of the codes mentioning the term originated in the legislative ...
380 4.4 Slavery^54 4.4.1 Terminology Identification of the legal status of slave is complicated, as in other periods ...
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