A History of Ancient Near Eastern Law
381 4.4.2.3.1 A female slave could become her master’s concubine. If she bore him children, she could be r ...
382 for example, a standard penalty upon the adoptee for dissolving the adoption was to be sold as a slave. 4.4.3.3 ...
383 adoptee. The point would have been that the adopter then sells the adoptee not as his son (who might b ...
384 a female slave is referred to as the property of another slave, but it is his mistress who claims her on his beh ...
385 45, a slave is ceremonially manumitted and bound by a support clause but is also said to have “redeeme ...
386 5.1.2.1 Agreement between the parents of the bride and groom or between the parents of the bride and the groom h ...
387 immediately come to live in the groom’s father’s house until the cou- ple were old enough for completi ...
388 5.1.3 Divorce 5.1.3.1 Form Marriage was (in theory) dissoluble at will by a unilateral declara- tion. One except ...
389 or a lesser marital offense such as slander or financial misfeasance (LH 141). 5.1.3.3 Capacity In the ...
390 5.1.5 Polygamy 5.1.5.1 Legal sources on polygamy are confined to bigamous mar- riages. A complicating factor is ...
391 could not take a second wife at will, but needed special justification, it may well have been that the ...
392 5.3.2 Where the adoptee was under the authority of parents, a prior contract with the latter was necessary where ...
393 5.3.5 A specialized form of adoption was matrimonial adoption. A woman adopted a girl from her parents ...
394 palace. The latter was made to officials, merchants, and even nadì- tums (LH 40) in return for a rent, but when ...
395 erty and to indemnify the neighbor for any loss caused by failure to do so (LL 11; LH “e”). 6.3 Inheri ...
396 out by casting lots.^104 Responsibility for organizing the division lay with the eldest brother, who might swear ...
397 6.3.1.6 A father had no power of testamentary disposition in the modern sense. He could benefit an out ...
398 6.3.2.2 During marriage, the dowry property was controlled by the husband, except perhaps for personal items suc ...
399 dowry (YOS 2 25) or bequeath it to her as an heir.^113 Furthermore, a marital gift might be accompanie ...
400 the buyer’s point of view and was formulaic, relying heavily on Sumerian phrases, most of which are already foun ...
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