1116
disinheritance, 594, 603
divorce, 578, 592–593
documents, 566–568
exchange, 606–607
family, 587–592
gender and age, 583–584
homicide, 612
household gods, 602–603
inheritance, 600–605
intestate succession, 599, 600
judges, 570–571
king, 568, 570
land tenure and fiscal burdens, 597–599
“Lifting of the Gods,” 573–575
litigation, 571–577
loans, 607–608
marriage, 587–592
marriage agreements, 587
marriage payments, 589–591
misappropriation, 614
negligence, 614
oath of king, 576–577
ordeal, 575–576
organs of government, 568–571
palace archives, 566
parties to litigation, 571
personal status, 578–587
pledges, 609–610
private archives, 566–568
property, 55, 596–600
real estate transfer, 599–600
sales, 605–606
second wife, 592
slander, 614
slavery, 584–587
sources of law, 565–568
state and private ownership, 55,
596–597
suretyship, 608–609
testate succession, 600
theft and related offenses, 612–614
trading ventures, 610–611
transfer inter vivos, 604–605
woman as guardian, 601–602Oaths, 33–34, 66, 67. See also Oaths
as evidence; Promissory oaths
Egypt
Demotic Law, 825
New Kingdom, 311
Third Intermediate Period, 795, 806
Hittite Kingdom, 628–629
Israel, 982, 1027
MesopotamiaNeo-Babylonian Period, 924–925
Neo-Sumerian Period, 218, 219
Old Assyrian Period, 442
as oral legal acts, 12
on ostraca
Egypt Demotic Law, 825, 853
Israel, 981
Oaths as evidence, 24, 33–34
Alalakh VII, 698
Egypt
Demotic Law, 825, 830
Elephantine, 869
Middle Kingdom and Second
Intermediate Period, 268–269
New Kingdom, 313–315
Old Kingdom and First
Intermediate Period, 112
Third Intermediate Period, 795
Emar, 662–663
Hittite Kingdom, 631
invoking name of a god, 34, 84
Egypt
Demotic Law, 831
New Kingdom, 315
invoking name of king, 34
Egypt New Kingdom, 315
Mesopotamia Nuzi, 576–577
judicial use of, 24
Mesopotamia
Early Dynastic and Sargonic Periods,
154–155
Middle Assyrian Period, 528
Middle Babylonian Period, 492,
494, 495
Neo-Assyrian Period, 891
Neo-Babylonian Period, 923,
924–935
Neo-Sumerian Period, 194, 195
Nuzi, 576–577
Old Assyrian Period, 445–446
Old Babylonian Period, 371,
374–375
Ugarit, 723
Oblates
Mesopotamia Neo-Babylonian Period,
918, 926–927, 932
Obligations. See Debt
Occupations
class status and
Egypt Demotic Law, 832
ethnic status and
Egypt
Demotic Law, 833
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