A History of Ancient Near Eastern Law
721 2.1.3 The Administration^3 The royal palace at Ugarit was the seat of the central administra- tion of the kingdom. Fr ...
722 2.1.4.3 Only once is a judge (di.ku 5 ) attested in legal texts (RS 16.156). There he appears as wit ...
723 paràsu), and in RS 17.67, the sàkinuseems to act as a substitute for the king in his function as judge. Women, like m ...
724 4.2 Class Among free persons, it is possible to discern a higher class consti- tuted by nobles such ...
725 should the debtors flee to another country (RS 19.66 = KTU 3.8). Wrongful enslavement of a free person was probably p ...
726 (i.e., the bride’s) gift that was given by her husband.” After the death of her husband, the wife co ...
727 divorced queen had acquired in Ugarit since her marriage would remain there.^20 As for the latter case of royal divor ...
728 household. The adopter was not necessarily without sons (RS 29.100), or he could envisage such a pos ...
729 adoption, the adoptee would receive a certain amount of silver, pre- sumably his own contribution to the household (c ...
730 hood RS 21.230 above). However, the father—or the widow, with due authorization—could disregard the ...
731 her together with him, preferring her over their two sons (who actu- ally had the right of succession). In another te ...
732 (RS 15.85), perhaps as a means to compensate them for their sec- ondary status in intestate successi ...
733 All of the documents are royal deeds and concern real estate, so that we find again the same clauses of guarantee and ...
734 king has “taken (perhaps, in this case, confiscated) and given” to a new holder (RS 16.145). Under t ...
735 ——. “Royal Land Grants and ilku-Service in Ugarit. The Legal Mechanism.” In Landwirtschaft im Alten Vorderen Orient, ...
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737 ANATOLIA AND THE LEVANT CANAAN Ignacio Márquez Rowe S L To date, the whole of the second millennium is represented ...
738 is recorded, namely, property rights to two orchards and a house. Then both parties are said to “ent ...
739 of justice. Beneath them were the native local rulers, more often called mayors (¢azannu), who as representatives of ...
740 the ancient Near East. Indeed, the correspondence of Rib-Hadda of Byblos, by far the largest in the ...
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