A History of Ancient Near Eastern Law
441 Kàrumcourts, just like the City Assembly, could appoint single per- sons (members?) called “he who solve ...
442 3.2 Procedure 3.2.1 Private Summons and Arbitration The first phase of formal proceedings^42 consisted of “seizi ...
443 could come directly before the City, if an appeal was made in Assur, or one appealed to it from a coloni ...
444 system as in commercial life, where most transactions took place “in the presence of ” (ma¢ar) witnesses. The co ...
445 were carefully recorded, in particular when, as happened occasion- ally, only a single witness could tes ...
446 the invocation “Listen, god, lord of the oath.”^71 Women swore by/on Ishtar’s symbol^72 and invoked her with “Li ...
447 therefore meant to (help to) establish facts, by carefully formulating an oath to be sworn (EL 281:14ff. ...
448 Statutes) and perhaps also Assur itself distinguished between “big” and “small men”^87 and the “big men” might b ...
449 4.2 Slavery 4.2.1 Terminology Slaves were called wardum, “slave,” and amtum, “slave girl,” by both Assyr ...
450 Several Anatolian slave sales, which offer no protection to the slave sold and allow the new owner to sell him “ ...
451 5.1.1 Conditions Marriage was based on a prior contract between the groom and the parents of the future ...
452 Payment of an agreed sum (in silver) to the parents of the bride, though probably customary, is mentioned only i ...
453 5.1.4 Special Clauses Two contracts (I 490 and ICK 1 3) consider possible infertility of the wife. In bo ...
454 contracts stipulate a single penalty for divorce and some other mis- behavior; in 91/k 132 and d/k 29, for a “mi ...
455 and everything there is out of the house” but gives up her claim on the tusinnum. 5.1.7 Remarriage Widow ...
456 the texts from Kanish),^129 a presumably childless couple manumits and adopts a slave. Having served his parents ...
457 P I 6.1 Real Property While there is ample evidence of ownership of houses by Assy ...
458 issue, the existence of a testament is mentioned or implied. EL 287, the division of an inheritance agreed upon ...
459 sister (“she will take her first share”), and then fixed shares for the other sons who have not received ...
460 of a dead trader would try to realize their claims. It is not surpris- ing that some of the few references we ha ...
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