women’s status, 452
written documents as evidence, 445
Old Babylonian Period, 361–430
administration, 365–366
administrative orders, 362
adoption, 381–382, 391–393
adultery, 366, 375, 388, 417–418
agricultural lease, 412
animals, hire of, 408
bulk goods, 413
burglary, 367, 421
carriage, 413–414
children, hire of, 391
citizenship, 376–377
class, 377–379
commercial property, 411–412
common property, 411
compulsory service, 368
constitutional and administrative
law, 363–368
contracts, 399–414
corvée, 368–369
courts, 366–368
crime and delict, 414–424
damage to property, 422–423
debt and social justice, 406–407
debt slaves and chattel slaves,
380, 382, 407
deposit, 413
dissolution of common property
partnership, 412–413
distraint, 406
divorce, 388–389
documents as evidence, 373–374
edicts, 361, 362
evidence, 373–376
family, 385–393
female inheritance, 397–399
fields and orchards, 410–411
fraud, 421–422
functions, 368–369
gender and age, 379
hire, 408–411
homicide, 363, 414–416
houses, 410
incest, 418–419
inheritance, 395–399
injury, 376, 416
intentional injury, 416
interest, 404–405
king, 363–364
land tenure, 393–394
law codes, 361
legislature, 364litigation, 369–376
loans, 403–408
male inheritance, 395–397
marriage, 385–391
military, 369
movables, 408
natives and foreigners as slaves,
380–381
oath as evidence, 371, 374–375
ordeal, 375–376
organs of government, 363–368
parties to litigation, 369–370
partnership, 411–412
perjury, 423
personal status, 376–385
persons, 409
petitions, 369
pledge, 405–406
polygamy, 390–391
private legal documents, 362–363
property, 393–399, 410–411
rape, 386, 418
receiving, 422
remarriage, 389, 417
repayment, 404–405
robbery, 421
sales, 399–402
scholastic legal documents, 363
seduction, 418
services, 409–410
servitudes, 394–395
sexual offenses, 417–419
slander, 423–424
slavery, 380–385
sources of law, 361–363
special institutions, 424
suretyship, 407–408
trading venture, 412
unintentional injury, 416
witchcraft, 375, 424
witnesses, 373
Old Sumerian Period, 243
Presargonic Period, 243
Mesopotamian science, 17
Messengers. See also Envoys
Canaan, 742
carrying royal decrees and letters
Egypt Old Kingdom and First
Intermediate Period, 103
first millennium, 1053
Late Bronze Age, 766–767
Micah, Hebrew Prophet, 984, 985,
1001
Middle Assyrian Period. See Mesopotamia 1113
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