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proof of payment
Mesopotamia Old Assyrian Period,
467
security
Mesopotamia Old Assyrian
Period, 468
settling disputes among
Mesopotamia Old Assyrian Period,
441–447
slave sales
Mesopotamia Old Assyrian Period,
448, 450, 462, 464, 470
sources of law
Mesopotamia Old Assyrian Period,
431–434
wives of
Mesopotamia Old Assyrian Period,
448, 451, 453, 468
Merchants’ associations, 29
Mesopotamia
Old Babylonian Period, 366, 368
Mercy. See Pardon
Mesalim, 242–243
Mesopotamia
Early Dynastic and Sargonic Periods,
141–181
administration, 147–149
administrative orders and appeals,
143
central administration, 147
citizenship, 156–157
class, 146, 157
commissioner, 150–151
constitutional and administrative
law, 145–151
contracts, 165–175
corvée, 142, 149
courts, 150–151
delict, 175–176
dissolution of marriage, 162
exchange, 172
family, 160–163
gender, 157
hire, 174–175
inheritance, 143, 163–165
judges, 150
king, 145–147
land tenure, 163
law codes and edicts, 141–143
legislature, 147
litigation, 152–155
loans, 172–173
local government, 148
marital property, 161–162marriage, 160–162
non-legal sources, 144–145
organs of government, 145–151
parties to litigation, 152
personal status, 156–160
pledges, 174
private legal documents, 143–144
promissory oaths, 175
provincial and city-state
administration, 148
public service, 148–149
sales, 165–172
central Babylonia, 170–171
northern Babylonia, 171–172
self-help, 155
settlements, 155
slavery, 149, 158–160, 169
sources of law, 141–145
suretyship, 174
taxes, 148–149
treaties, 242
Late Bronze Age, 757–758
Middle Assyrian Period, 521–563
abortion, 558
administration, 522–524
adoption, 539–541
adultery, 524, 527, 528, 535, 553,
555–556
assault and wounding, 557–558
Assyrian system, 553
blasphemy, 559–560
boatman, 552
children, 538–539
class, 530–531, 533–534
constitutional and administrative
law, 522–526
contracts, 546–553
courts, 524
crime and delict, 528, 553–560
desertion of marital home, 537–538
divorce, 536, 537
documents of practice, 522
evidence, 528–530
family, 535–541
filiation, 538
forgery, 560
fuller, 552–553
gender, 533–535
harem edicts, 7, 28, 76, 521,
534–535
homicide, 558
inheritance, 539, 542–545
jurisdiction, 559
land tenure, 524–525, 545westbrk_subj index_1067-1140 8/27/03 1:37 PM Page 1108