A History of Ancient Near Eastern Law
821 is mainly private law that is documented by the Demotic material. There are very few Demotic legal texts from th ...
822 1.3 Decrees Decrees emanated from various authoritative bodies—the king or his officials. Such decrees were made known ...
823 1.4 Administrative Orders An old feature of the legal system, these were contained in letters from the king to o ...
824 sources, family archives and official archives.^25 Most of these documents record settled agreements^26 for (1) the co ...
825 sales is known from abnormal hieratic and early Demotic texts begin- ning in the seventh century B.C.E. and thro ...
826 to the inheritance of their father and of marriage practice.^36 Aggrieved parties could seek justice before divine tri ...
827 2.1.3 The Administration During the period in which Demotic was used, Egypt was adminis- tered in different ways ...
828 and into villages. Each of these divisions had a “governor” and a “royal” scribe. As a result of the reclamation proje ...
829 were several other officials who had competence to hear complaints. Interestingly, they too appear to dispense j ...
830 disputes before the local court was petitioned. P. Mattha often specifies the “chief of police”? (tb-n-m“'[?]) as the ...
831 3.2.1.2 A declaratory oath was taken “before the god” by an accused party if a dispute was unresolved on the fac ...
832 all rights to the disputed property and any future claim to the said property.^63 A rare type of text exists which rec ...
833 Women rarely, if ever, bear specific status titles in the legal docu- ments but merely the generic term s ̇m.t, ...
834 4.3.2 Those who acted as witnesses to legal agreements were almost exclusively men, many of whom were probably scribes ...
835 F 5.1 Marriage 5.1.1 Conditions 5.1.1.1 There were, as far as we know, no prior legal conditions to marri ...
836 concerning the “gift to a wife” (“p n ̇m.t) is drawn up.^84 Stage two was the entrance of the woman into the house of ...
837 (¢ 3 ') or, employed of the wife alone, “departure” (“m).^91 The divorce document formula usually begins: “I hav ...
838 5.3 Adoption Adoption of children is attested, as is the self-sale “to act as eldest son,” on the model of self-sales ...
839 Certain classes, particularly military, were given plots of land under fixed tenure conditions in exchange for s ...
840 and duties were specified in P. Mattha.^107 Daughters often received their share of the parental inheritance at the ti ...
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