1136
constitutional and administrative law,
720–722
contracts, 731–733
courts, 721–722
crime and delict, 720, 733–734
exchange, 732–733
family, 725–729
functions, 722
gender, 724
gift, 731–732
inheritance, 728, 729–731
king, 720
land tenure, 729
legislature, 720
litigation, 722–723
marriage, 725–727
organs of government, 720–722
personal status, 723–725
property, 729–731
sales, 732
slavery, 724–725
sources of law, 719–720
suretyship, 733
treaties, 719, 720, 753, 754
as vassal Egyptian Kingdom, 759
as vassal Hittite Kingdom, 720, 758
Umma, 243
treaties, 241, 249
Ur III, 244. See also Mesopotamia,
subheading: Neo-Sumerian Period
Ur-Namma. See Law codes, subheading:
Laws of Ur-Namma (LU). See also
Mesopotamia, subheading:
Neo-Sumerian Period
Uruk, 243. See also Mesopotamia,
subheading: Neo-Babylonian Period;
Mesopotamia, subheading:
Neo-Sumerian Period
invention of writing at, 141
treaties, 241
Usufruct
Egypt
New Kingdom, 325
Old Kingdom and First
Intermediate Period, 121–122
Third Intermediate Period, 802
Israel, 1019
Mesopotamia
Middle Assyrian Period, 542
Neo-Babylonian Period, 937, 940,
942, 943
Old Babylonian Period, 398Vassal kingdoms, 84
Late Bronze Age
Egypt, 757Hittite, 756, 758
Middle Bronze Age, 746
treaties. See Treaties
Ugarit as, 720, 758, 759
Vehicles. See Movables
Venue, 30, 37
Egypt New Kingdom, 306–307
language determining
Egypt Demotic Law, 832
Mesopotamia
Early Dynastic and Sargonic
Periods, 152
Verdicts
Ebla, 227, 230
Egypt
New Kingdom, 309
Old Kingdom and First
Intermediate Period, 111
Third Intermediate Period, 794
Mesopotamia
Middle Assyrian Period, 530
Neo-Babylonian Period, 923
Neo-Sumerian Period, 195
Nuzi, 573
Old Assyrian Period, 433, 439,
440, 443, 444, 446–447
Old Babylonian Period, 371
Ugarit, 722
Vicarious liability or talion, 36, 74, 79
Villages. See also Local government
Egypt Demotic Law, 828
Mesopotamia
Middle Assyrian Period, 522,
532–533
Middle Babylonian Period, 489
Neo-Babylonian Period, 917
Vineyards. See also Agriculture
administration
damage to
Hittite Kingdom, 650
protection during siege
Israel, 1042
tree crops
Israel, 1017
Virginity
Egypt
New Kingdom, 323
Third Intermediate Period, 797
Mesopotamia
Middle Assyrian Period, 556–557
Old Babylonian Period, 423
Viziers
Egypt, 27
Middle Kingdom and Second
Intermediate Period, 256, 258,
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