A History of Ancient Near Eastern Law
501 F Evidence for family law is meager. 5.1 Marriage 5.1.1 Conditions 5.1.1.1 There are a group ...
502 Although broken in the middle, the text mentions the brothers of the mother of the girl—presumably to preclude t ...
503 the inscription, the father-in-law was sworn explicitly not to make any claims upon the property,^9 ...
504 to possess a remarkable degree of socioeconomic independence. Gurney suggested that she may be the proprietor of ...
505 5.3 Adoption According to a broken adoption and inheritance text from ›ana (see 6.2.1.2 below), an ...
506 traditionally due the crown.^106 The narûs are our best source for infor- mation about land tenure during the Mi ...
507 claimant and the son of the priest (by then also deceased) to the water ordeal. From this text we l ...
508 contract, names of the parties, operative clauses, any special con- tingencies, witnesses, date, and seal impres ...
509 sales of persons, the sellers often include someone identified as the “surety” (kattû), who apparen ...
510 full price, the text goes on to state that PN 1 will pay (inamdin) PN 2 , the first named seller, two garments v ...
511 brewer malt, which he contracts to pay back (qàt PN utâr) in grain at an unspecified date.^124 A tr ...
512 7.4 Distraint The creditor “seized” (ißbat) the debtor, or “detained him in confine- ment” or “in his house” (in ...
513 of theft.^141 According to the texts, the surety “took charge of him (the prisoner)” (pùssu im¢aß, ...
514 7.7.2 Persons Texts concerning runaway or misappropriated slaves speak of their hire,^149 indicating that slaves ...
515 7.10 Contracts regarding marriage and adoption are discussed under the appropriate status. C ...
516 The Amarna Letters provide additional clues about redress for homicide. In EA 8,^159 the Babylonian king Burnabu ...
517 u i“riqù-ma lú.“id(?) ina qàt PN 2 ìkimù“u).^162 In the letters from Amarna, ¢abàtu signifies “taki ...
518 8.4.4 Receiving 8.4.7.1 A person imprisoned for possessing stolen goods could peti- tion for release in order to ...
519 Ancient Kudurrus. Oriental Institute Publications 104. Chicago: Oriental Institute, University of C ...
520 Torczyner, H. Altbabylonische Tempelrechnungen nach A.T.Clay’s Kopien in The Babylonian Expedition of the Univer ...
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