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land tenure and fiscal burdens,
597–599
“Lifting of the Gods,” 573–575
litigation, 571–577
loans, 567, 607–608
marriage, 587–592
marriage agreements, 587
marriage payments, 589–591
misappropriation, 614
negligence, 614
oath of king, 576–577
ordeal, 575–576
organs of government, 568–571
palace archives, 566
parties to litigation, 571
personal status, 578–587
pledges, 586, 609–610
private archives, 566–568
property, 596–600
real estate transfer, 599–600
sales, 605–606
second wife, 592
slander, 614
slavery, 584–587
sources of law, 565–568
state and private ownership, 55,
596–597
suretyship, 608–609
testate succession, 600
theft and related offenses, 612–614
trading ventures, 610–611
transfer inter vivos, 604–605
woman as guardian, 601–602
Old Assyrian Period, 431–483
administration, 438–439
administrative orders, 432, 437
adoption, 455–456
Anatolia, 440–441, 448
Anatolian rulers, 435
Assur, 438–440
bailment, 474
betrothal, 451–452
brotherhood, 456
children, 455–456
citizenship, 447–448
city, 435–436, 438
colonies, 438–439
constitutional and administrative
law, 434–441
contingency clauses, 462–464
contracts, 433, 461–476
courts, 439–441, 442–443
creditor borrowing, 472
crime and delict, 476–477debt, 465–468, 472–473
debt slaves and chattel slaves,
449–450, 470
default, 467–468
distraint, 471–472
divorce, 448, 451, 453–455
dowry, 453
evidence, 443–446
family, 450–455
guarantors, 470–473
heirs, 458–459, 460
hire, 473–474
inheritance, 455, 457–460
interest, 466
joint liability, 468
judges, 441, 442
judicial records, 432–433
law codes, 431
legislature, 437
liability, 468
litigation, 441–447
marriage, 450–455
naruqquassociation, 475–476
oath as evidence, 445–446
ordeal, 446
organs of government, 434–441
parties to litigation, 441, 448
partnership, 474–475
personal status, 447–450
pledges, 455, 468–470
private legal documents, 431,
433–434
private summons and arbitration,
441–443
property, 457–460
real property, 457
redemption, 449, 464–465, 470
remarriage, 455
repayment, 466–468
ruler, 434–435
sales, 461–465
security, 468–473
slaves, 449–450
sources of law, 431–434
statutes, 432
testaments, 457–460
trading ventures, 431, 433, 447,
474–476, 749–750
treaties, 434, 439, 477–478,
749–750
trial by court, 442–443
verdicts, 433, 439, 440, 443, 444,
446–447
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