A History of Ancient Near Eastern Law
But he did not put to death the sons of the murderers, as it is writ- ten in the book of the law (torah) of Moses, that God orde ...
could not be defined, could at least be demarcated by juxtaposing cases where there was liability for the goring ox with ones wh ...
almost all of the period in question, until the mid-first millennium.^17 Empirical evidence supports the theoretical picture. Th ...
record from Sumer to the Persian period, at which time it is also to be found in Egypt, in Aramaic and Demotic contracts from El ...
C A L In the conceptual universe of the ancient Near East, there were three spheres of governm ...
2.1.3 Moreover, continued legitimacy depended on the king fulfilling the mandate that the gods assigned to him, the most importa ...
in the sources. The constitutional convention was that the king issued decrees in the form of personal orders, although that aut ...
2.3.1.2 “The palace” was sometimes referred to as the ruling author- ity, especially in fiscal matters. It was also referred to ...
meant the local council. The evidence is most striking in the case of Assur of the Old Assyrian period but can be seen elsewhere ...
2.3.5.1 The king was everywhere the supreme judge, although his judicial activity is more in evidence in some periods than in ot ...
2.3.5.5 Being administrative as well as judicial bodies, the courts were not mere arbitrators but had coercive powers. They also ...
evidence of judgment by default. Some systems attest to a “seizure” of one party by another (or mutually) prior to their appeari ...
3.2.5.1 Witnesses Oral testimony was the most common form of evidence. The parties were competent witnesses on their own behalf. ...
3.2.5.4.1 The first type of oath is almost universal in its applica- tion. It invokes the name of a god and is taken at the temp ...
3.2.5.6 Oracle The oracle was a divinatory procedure, a means of consulting a god on a specific question—in principle, one that ...
respect to public and family law but also in areas that modern law would regard as incongruous, such as contract and criminal la ...
the constitutional form, citizenship in the broad sense meant being a subject of the ruler. The subjects of rulers were called t ...
The Old Assyrian trading colonies in Anatolia were a special case in that they obtained extra-territorial status, including the ...
status in the law; rather, all subordinate members of a household, whether wives or male or female children, had more limited ri ...
man until she married, when she assumed the status of wife of a man. If the man she married was still the son of a man, then her ...
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