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The Code of Hammurabi was a set of laws established by the king of Babylon (modern day Iraq) at the time. Despite this harsh and very hierarchy dependant set of laws, Hammurabi has been credited for retribution and restitution in the law. Criminals were punished and had to financially restore the victims of their crimes.

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Mosaic Law also commonly known as the 10 commandments given to Moses by God. These laws were similar to Hammurabi in principle but had one major difference. Mosaic Law solely focused to punish those who purposely disobeyed the laws.

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Previous to the ancient greeks, power had always been one sided and absolute. Now the Greeks have created something called representative democracy. This is especially important to us because Canada is a representative democracy. Citizens vote for a leader and through that another concept was born; jury duty. Men in that time were expected to accept their jury duties and participate in the criminal trials.

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Roman Law a.k.a the Twelve Tablets was not only influential in modern law but established many legal traditions and the idea of lawyers. Some of the general laws were public prosecution of crimes and compensation for victims. They also explored the idea of a legal advisers, which we now call lawyers.

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Aboriginal Law can be credited with the impact it had on our modern day rights and responsibilities of a citizen. In 1720, six nations founded the Iroquois Confederacy which developed these rights.

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Previously, legal matters were always very complicated and hard to understand. Now, with Napoleon Bonaparte and his French Civil Code, people of the average mind can understand and this raises the popularity of this set of code. Napoleon's Code focused on civil matters, family disputes and wills.