A History of Ancient Near Eastern Law
581 due to linguistic difficulties deriving from the parallel or comple- mentary usage of Hurrian and Akkadian technical te ...
582 military corvée, should perhaps be reconsidered in light of the evi- dence provided by many registers that list ...
583 often employed by the palace administration and also by some pri- vate households. There is no evidence that they were ...
584 4.3.2 Age definitions are fairly loose: the basic categories, both for men and women, foresee adults and childre ...
585 figure that actually corresponds to the bodies of adolescents. In most cases, boys were employed as junior workers, and ...
586 cause of these agreements, whose juridical features require further analysis.^63 4.4.1.5 Persons handed over to ...
587 loan. It is still a matter of debate whether chattel slaves and/or indentured persons (of the palace or in private hand ...
588 either be free or a chattel slave. As elsewhere in the ancient Near East, the traditional limitations on women’s ...
589 5.1.2.4 Common to all marriage transactions—whether straightfor- ward marriage contracts or the various types of adopti ...
590 5.1.4.1 As a rule, marriage transactions foresaw (1) the payment of a “bride-price” by the groom (or his legal r ...
591 5.1.4.4 The bride-price was normally paid in silver, but at times other items appear in addition to or as an alternativ ...
592 5.1.5 Second Wife A recurrent clause in marriage contacts forbids the groom to take another wife if his bride ha ...
593 fails to bear, he may take another wife), the agreement also foresees the husband’s divorcing (ezèbu) his wife, even th ...
594 in a number of wills. Common to all of them is the designation of a woman—as a rule, the testator’s wife—as succ ...
595 transactions; their basic common feature is the formal attribution of a familial status to (young) men or women who wer ...
596 providing the adopter with food and clothing (ipru u lubu“tu) and fur- ther state that when the adopter dies, th ...
597 far retrieved, which either belong to private family archives or deal with other sectors of the palace economy and admi ...
598 6.2.1 The specific legal nature of ilkuat Nuzi has been the subject of intense debate. The basic issues are the ...
599 6.2.4 Performance of the corvée that accompanied the land was incumbent upon its owners, whether they were single indiv ...
600 conferred on the adoptee the right to the entire estate or portions of it (cf. 5.4 above). 6.4. I 6.4. ...
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