A History of Ancient Near Eastern Law

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contracts, 901–905
crime and delict, 905–906
debt, 903
divorce, 896–897
evidence, 891–892
exchange, 902
family, 894–897
gender and age, 893–894
imperial structure, 885–886
inheritance, 898–901
king, 885, 886–887
land tenure, 893, 898–899
law codes, 883–884
letters, 884
litigation, 890–892
marriage, 894–896
organs of government, 886–889
personal status, 892–894
private legal documents, 884
property, 898–901
realia, 885
remission of debts, 904
royal decrees, 884
sales, 901–902
security, 904–905
slavery, 893
sources of law, 883–885
transfer inter vivos, 898–899
Neo-Babylonian Period, 911–974, 1051
administration, 916–917, 1051
administrative documents, 914
administrative orders, 912–913
adoption, 936–938
animals, lease of, 955, 958, 960
apprenticeship, 958
assault, 962
boats, 955
burglary, 963–964
central administration, 916–917,
1051
citizenship, 926
class, 926–927
compulsory service, 920
constitutional and administrative
law, 915–921
contracts, 944–961
corporal punishment, 966
courts, 918
crime and delict, 961–967
damage to property, 965
deposit, 961
dispositions, 942–943
distraint, 953
divorce, 935–936

documents, 923–924
dowry, 934, 939, 940–942
edicts, 912–913
evidence, 923–925
exchange, 948
family, 933–938
fraud, 964
functions, 920–921
gender and age, 928
gifts, 948–949
hire, 954–958
homicide, 961–962
houses, 954
imperial structure, 1051–1052
imprisonment, 966
inheritance, 937–944
interest, 950
judges, 918, 919, 920
king, 915, 1051–1052
kudurru, 913
land lease, 956–957
land tenure, 938
law codes, 9, 912
lease, 956–958
legislature, 915–916
letters, 914
litigation, 921–925
loans, 949–951
local courts, 919
local government, 917–918, 1051
manumission, 932
marital misconduct, 936
marriage, 928, 933–936
military, 920, 938
movables, 944, 945, 951, 955
names of slaves, 930
oaths, 924–925
oblates, 918, 926–927, 932
ordeal, 923, 925
organs of government, 915–920
parties to litigation, 921
partnership, 959–961
peculium, 931–932
perjury, 965
personal status, 926–933
petitions, 921
pledges, 951–953
prebends, 946, 949, 957
private legal documents, 913–914
property, 938–944
provincial administration, 917,
1051, 1052
punishment, 966–967
receiving, 964–965

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