A History of Ancient Near Eastern Law
701 of Alalakh or Yamkhad regularly appear as contracting parties. The formulation is one-sided: the transferor conveys ...
702 followed by the words “and it cannot be remitted” (ul iddarar), which clearly refer to the legal ine ...
703 B. ALIV Sources of Law 1.1 The sources of this period (which may be called Middle Baby- lonian or early ...
704 including the name of the scribe, ends the text. Unlike their Old Babylonian counterparts, these doc ...
705 legal matters. The number of witnesses does not seem to have been systematically fixed; as few as three and as many ...
706 in their village. They are liable to punishment if the owner subse- quently discovers his slave ther ...
707 as members of the royal court. They engaged in business transac- tions such as trade and loans and show a special ti ...
708 The case of runaways is well documented in our material. AT 3 describes an inter-state agreement on ...
709 was probably the home of the groom, consists of six talents of cop- per and a bronze dagger. The reference to the cu ...
710 of the texts, which often confuses genders, is not misleading). The husband could “hate and drive aw ...
711 5.3 Adoption The only adoption document (AT 16) is also quite unique in that the declaration of the creation of the ...
712 6.2 Inheritance 6.2.1 On the death of the father, his heirs divided the paternal estate. The father ...
713 occasions, more than one seller is involved (six in AT 70 and three in AT 72). As a rule, the completion clause foll ...
714 etymology of the expression, however, it may be tentatively suggested that they designate interest-f ...
715 7.4 Suretyship^51 In the above two documents, members of the debtor’s family and/or his landed property could be sei ...
716 8.2 Punishment AT 17 (discussed in 5.1.1 above) records the confiscation of prop- erty of a criminal ...
717 ——. “Königtum und Palast nach den Alalah-Texten.” In Le Palais et la Royauté, ed. P. Garelli. CRRAI 19. Paris: Geuth ...
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ANATOLIA AND THE LEVANT UGARIT Ignacio Márquez Rowe Ugarit, modern Ras Shamra, lies about twenty-five miles south of the mouth o ...
720 the scribe) are mentioned; the presence of the king presumably made it unnecessary. Legal documents ...
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