1086
Dykes and canals
maintenance men
Ebla, 231
Dynastic houses. See Imperial
structure; Local governmentEasements. See Servitudes
Ebla, 227–239, 243
constitutional and administrative law,
228–230
contracts, 235–236
crime and delict, 236–237
family, 232–233
litigation, 230
personal status, 230–232
property, 233–235
sources of law, 227
treaties, 242
Economic decrees, 15–16. See also
Debt relief
Edicts, 6–7, 27
Coptos Decree
Egypt Old Kingdom and First
Intermediate Period, 102
Ebla, 227
Egypt
Demotic Law, 822
Edict of King Horemheb, 7, 289,
290, 294–295, 300, 302, 342
Middle Kingdom and Second
Intermediate Period, 256
Nauri Decree, 290, 300
New Kingdom, 289, 290–291, 294
Old Kingdom and First Intermediate
Period, 94–95, 99, 102
Third Intermediate Period, 778–780
Hittite Kingdom
Edict of King Telipinu, 6, 13, 15,
25, 28, 619, 623–626, 644, 647
Edict of King Tud¢aliya IV, 7, 16
international law, 753
Israel, 991
Mesopotamia
Early Dynastic and Sargonic
Periods, 141–143
Middle Assyrian Period. See
Harem Edicts
Neo-Assyrian Period, 884
Neo-Babylonian Period, 912–913
Neo-Sumerian Period
Edict of King Irikagina of
Lagash, 6, 15, 28
Nuzi, 566, 568
Old Babylonian PeriodEdict of Ammi-Saduqa, 6, 362. See
alsoIndex of Texts Cited (Cuneiform)
Edict of Samsu-iluna, 6, 362, 407
Edict X, 6, 362
Egypt
Demotic Law, 819–862
administration, 827–828
administrative orders, 823
adoption, 839, 842
animals
hire, 847
theft of, 853
census, 828
central administration, 827
children, 834, 837–838
citizenship, 832
class, 832–833
Code of Hermopolis, 11, 778, 821
compulsory service, 829
constitutional and administrative
law, 826–829
contracts, 843–852
courts, 828–829
crime and delict, 853–854
debt and social justice, 851
decision of court, 831
decrees, 822
divorce, 835, 836–837
Early Demotic, 820
ethnicity, 833
exchange, 849
family, 835–838
female inheritance, 842
functions, 829
gender and age, 833–834
hire, 847–849
inheritance, 839–843
interest, 850
land tenure, 838–839
Late Demotic, 820
law codes, 11, 58, 778, 821
legislature, 826
literary sources, 825–826
litigation, 829–832
loans, 849–851
local administration, 828
male inheritance, 840–842
marital gifts, 842–843
marriage, 835–837
marriage contract, 836
Middle Demotic, 820
oaths on ostraca, 825
oracles and oracular questions, 855
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