law codes, 521
legal capacity, 533
liability for negligence and breach
of contract, 552–553
litigation, 526–530
loans, 542, 548–549
marital property, 541–542
marriage, 535–538
organs of government, 522–524
ownership and servitudes, 545–546
palace regulations, 521, 523
paternal authority, 539
personal status, 530–535
pledges, 531, 535, 542, 550–552
polygamy, 538
priestesses and prostitutes, 534
property, 541–546
rape, 528, 535, 536, 556–557
remarriage, 537
sales, 546–548
security, 549–550
slaves, 531–532
social status, 533–534
sources of law, 521–522
taxes, 525–526
theft and related offenses, 524,
526, 528, 553–555
villagers, 532–533
witchcraft, 524, 526, 528, 559
Middle Babylonian Period, 485–520
administration, 488–489
adoption, 500, 505
animals and herds, hire of, 513, 514
burglary, 517
central administration, 488
children, 504
citizenship, 496–497
class, 497–499
completion clauses, 509
compulsory service, 490
constitutional and administrative
law, 487–491
contingency clauses, 509–510
contracts, 507–515
correspondence, 487
courts, 489–490
crime and delict, 515
debt and social justice, 512
debt slaves and chattel slaves, 499
deposit, 514–515
distraint, 492, 499, 512
divorce, 503–504
documents as evidence, 495
evidence, 492, 494–496family, 501–505
female inheritance, 507
female slaves, 500
foreigners, 497
functions, 490–491
gender and age, 498–499
hire, 513–514
homicide, 515–518
inheritance, 506–507
injury, 516
inscriptions, 486
king, 487–488, 489–490
land tenure, 505–506
legal records, 486–487
legislature, 488
litigation, 491–496, 497
loans, 510–511
male inheritance, 506–507
marriage, 501–504
movables, 513
oath as evidence, 492, 495
operative clauses, 508–509
ordeal, 489, 495–496
organs of government, 487–490
parties to litigation, 491
partnership, 514
personal status, 496–500
petitions, 490–491
pledges, 511
property, 505–507
provincial administration, 488–489
receiving, 518
repayment, 511
sales, 508–510
sanctions, 517
sexual offenses, 516
slavery, 499–500
sources of law, 485–487
suretyship, 512–513
theft and related offenses, 496,
516–518
vehicles, hire of, 513
wet nurse, 514
witnesses, 492, 494
Neo-Assyrian Period, 883–910
administration, 887–889
adoption, 897
childlessness, 897
children, 897
citizenship, 892
class, 892–893
concubinage, 896
constitutional and administrative
law, 885–889 1109
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