repayment, 950–951
robbery and kidnapping, 964
royal courts, 918–919
royal slaves, 933
runaway slaves, 931, 932, 966
sales, 944–948
scholastic documents, 914
services and supplies, 955, 958–959
sexual offenses, 962
slave-mark, 932
slaves, 928–930
social justice, 953
sources of law, 911–914
suretyship, 953
temple administration, 918
temple courts, 919
theft and related offenses, 922,
962–965
treason, 965
witchcraft, 966
witnesses, 923, 924
Neo-Sumerian Period, 183–226
administration, 188–192
administrative records, 185
adoption, 204–205
“bala” system, 191–192
central authority, 188–189
citizenship, 197
class, 198
constitutional and administrative
law, 185–193
contracts, 185, 209–219
core provinces, 189–190
courts, 193
crime and delict, 219–221
debt, 215
dissolution of marriage, 204
evidence, 194, 195–197
false accusations, 221
family, 200–205
female inheritance, 208–209
gender, 198
great estates, 190–191
hire, 185, 206, 217–218
homicide, 216, 219
imperial structure, 185–186
inheritance, 206–209
injury, 219
interest, 213
king, 186–187
land, hire of, 217–218
land tenure, 205–206
law codes, 183
litigation, 184, 194–197loans, 185, 212–214
marriage, 200–204
movables, 218
parties to litigation, 194
peripheral regions, 192
perjury, 221
personal status, 197–200
pledges, 215
prison, 221
procedural records, 184
promissory oath, 219
property, 205–209
provincial administration, 189–190
public sector, 187
repayments, 214
sales, 210–212
sexual offenses, 219–220
slavery, 195, 198–200
social justice, 215
sources, 183–185
succession to paternal estate, 206–209
suretyship, 215–217
testamentary succession, 207
theft and related offenses, 216,
220–221
trial reports, 184
Nuzi, 565–617
administration, 568–569
adoption, 567, 578, 594–596
appeals, 570, 577
archives, 565
assault and battery, 612
breaking and entering, 613
burglary and aggravated theft, 613
children, 593–594
citizenship, 578–580
classes of society, 580–583
constitutional and administrative
law, 568–571
contracts, 605–611
courts, 569–571
crime and delict, 571, 611–614
disinheritance, 594, 603
divorce, 578, 592–593
documents, 566–568
exchange, 567, 606–607
family, 583, 587–592
gender and age, 583–584
homicide, 612
household gods, 602–603
inheritance, 596, 600–605
intestate succession, 599, 600
judges, 570–571
king, 568, 570 1111
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