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What's one of the craziest laws Hammurabi wrote? 

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What's one of the craziest laws Hammurabi wrote? 

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194) If a man give his child to a nurse and the child die in her hands, but the nurse unbeknown to the father and mother nurse another child, then they shall convict her of having nursed another child without the knowledge of the father and mother and her breasts shall be cut off.

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Hammurabi was the sixth king of the First Babylonian dynasty of the Amorite tribe, reigning from c. 1792 BC to c. 1750 BC.

He was preceded by his father, Sin-Muballit, who abdicated due to failing health.

During his reign, he conquered Elam and the city-states of Larsa, Eshnunna, and Mari.

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Invent 3 of your own codes to enforce today.

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Invent 3 of your own codes to enforce today.

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1. If an individual is caught in the act of vandalism, they will be fined in accordance with property damage costs.

2. If an individual is caught stealing, they will be fined up to $10,000 and serve up to nine years in state prison

3. If an individual is caught possessing illegal drugs, they will be setenced one year in county jail, community services, and/or a fine of up to $1,000.

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What are 3 of the most interesting laws?

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What are 3 of the most interesting laws?

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196) If a man put out the eye of another man, his eye shall be put out. [ An eye for an eye ]
197) If he break another man's bone, his bone shall be broken.
200) If a man knock out the teeth of his equal, his teeth shall be knocked out. [ A tooth for a tooth ]

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Code of Hammurabi:

1) If a man bring an accusation against a man, and charge him with a crime, but cannot prove it, he, the accuser shall be put to death.

Modern Law:

Defamation is the action of damaging the good reputation of someone. A person may be liable for defamation if they make untrue statements about another person. There are two types of defamation; slander and libel. Slander is the act of voicing defamation while libel is writing the defamation. In the case of defamation, a lawsuit can be filed and the person accused can be brought to court. They could be fined or serve jail time.

Code of Hammurabi:

22) If anyone is committing a robbery and is caught, then he shall be put to death.

Modern Law:

Theft is the taking of another person's property without that person's permission. Someone guilty of theft can pay a fine or serve jail time, usually depending on the value of the item/s that was/were taken.

Code of Hammurabi:

195) If a son strike his father, they shall cut off his fingers.

Modern Law:

A person commits domestic violence by committing one or more of the following acts against a person with whom the offender shares or shared a personal relationship, or against the minor child of such a person:

Intentionally causing or attempting to cause bodily injury

Putting the victim or a member of the victim’s family or household in fear of bodily injury or continued harassment, to the extent that the fear causes substantial emotional distress

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5) If a judge try a case, reach a decision, and present his judgment in writing; if later error shall appear in his decision, and it be through his own fault, then he shall pay twelve times the fine set by him in the case, and he shall be publicly removed from the judge's bench, and never again shall he sit there to render judgement.

138) If a man wishes to separate from his wife who has borne him no children, he shall give her the amount of her purchase money and the dowry which she brought from her father's house, and let her go.

154) If a man be guilty of incest with his daughter, he shall be driven from the place (exiled).

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137) If a man wish to separate from a woman who has borne him children, or from his wife who has borne him children: then he shall give that wife her dowry, and a part of the usufruct of field, garden, and property, so that she can rear her children. When she has brought up her children, a portion of all that is given to the children, equal as that of one son, shall be given to her. She may then marry the man of her heart.

138) If a man wishes to separate from his wife who has borne him no children, he shall give her the amount of her purchase money and the dowry which she brought from her father's house, and let her go.

139) If there was no purchase price he shall give her one mina of gold as a gift of release.

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154) If a man be guilty of incest with his daughter, he shall be driven from the place (exiled).
192) If a son of a paramour or a prostitute say to his adoptive father or mother: "You are not my father, or my mother," his tongue shall be cut off.

195) If a son strike his father, his hands shall be hewn off.

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15) If any one take a male or female slave of the court, or a male or female slave of a freed man, outside the city gates, he shall be put to death.
17) If any one find runaway male or female slaves in the open country and bring them to their masters, the master of the slaves shall pay him two shekels of silver.
282) If a slave say to his master: "You are not my master," if they convict him his master shall cut off his ear.

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44) If any one take over a waste-lying field to make it arable, but is lazy, and does not make it arable, he shall plow the fallow field in the fourth year, harrow it and till it, and give it back to its owner, and for each ten gan (a measure of area) ten gur of grain shall be paid.
48) If any one owe a debt for a loan, and a storm prostrates the grain, or the harvest fail, or the grain does not grow for lack of water; in that year he need not give his creditor any grain, he washes his debt-tablet in water and pays no rent for this year.

53) If any one be too lazy to keep his dam in proper condition, and does not so keep it; if then the dam break and all the fields be flooded, then shall he in whose dam the break occurred be sold for money, and the money shall replace the corn which he has caused to be ruined.

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209) If a man strike a free-born woman so that she lose her unborn child, he shall pay ten shekels for her loss.
148) If a man take a wife, and she be seized by disease, if he then desires to take a second wife he shall not put away his wife, who has been attacked by disease, but he shall keep her in the house which he has built and support her so long as she lives.

149) If this woman does not wish to remain in her husband's house, then he shall compensate her for the dowry that she brought with her from her father's house, and she may go.