https://padlet.com/cmendoza204745/bnwesnanxwww en-us 2020-03-03 19:01:59 UTC 2020-03-04 22:20:55 UTC hello@padlet.com cmendoza204745 https://padlet.com/cmendoza204745/bnwesnanxwww/wish/454710481 142.  If a woman has hated her husband and has said, "You shall not possess me,: her past shall be inquired into, as to what she lacks.  If she has been discreet, and has no vice, and her husband has gone out, and has greatly belittled her; that woman has not blame, she shall take her marriage portion and go off to her father's house.

151. If a woman who lived in a man's house made an agreement with her husband, that no creditor can arrest her, and has given a document therefor: if that man, before he married that woman, had a debt, the creditor can not hold the woman for it. But if the woman, before she entered the man's house, had contracted a debt, her creditor can not arrest her husband therefor.

172. If her husband made her no gift, she shall be compensated for her gift, and she shall receive a portion from the estate of her husband, equal to that of one child. If her sons oppress her, to force her out of the house, the judge shall examine into the matter, and if the sons are at fault the woman shall not leave her husband's house. If the woman desire to leave the house, she must leave to her sons the gift which her husband gave her, but she may take the dowry of her father's house. Then she may marry the man of her heart.

173. If this woman bear sons to her second husband, in the place to which she went, and then die, her earlier and later sons shall divide the dowry between them.]]> 2020-03-04 22:09:17 UTC https://padlet.com/cmendoza204745/bnwesnanxwww/wish/454710481 cmendoza204745 https://padlet.com/cmendoza204745/bnwesnanxwww/wish/454710757  53.  If  a man neglects to maintain his dike and does not strengthen it, and a break is made in his dike and the water carries away the farmland, the man in whose dike the break has been made shall replace the grain which has been damaged.
 
54. If he is not able to replace the grain, they shall sell him and his goods and the farmers whose grain the water has carried away shall divide the proceeds from the sale.

88. If a merchant lends grain at interest, for one gur he shall receive on hundred sila as interest (33 percent); if he lends money at interest, for one shekel of silver he shall receive one-fifth of a shekel as interest.
 
104. If a merchant gives to an agent grain, wool, oil, or goods of any kind with which to trade, the agent shall write down the value and return the money to the merchant.  The agent shall take a sealed  receipt for the money which he gives to the merchant.]]> 2020-03-04 22:10:02 UTC https://padlet.com/cmendoza204745/bnwesnanxwww/wish/454710757 cmendoza204745 https://padlet.com/cmendoza204745/bnwesnanxwww/wish/454710962 14. If any one steal the minor son of another, he shall be put to death.

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.

16. If any one receive into his house a runaway male or female slave of the court, or of a freedman, and does not bring it out at the public proclamation of the major domus, the master of the house 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.

18. If the slave will not give the name of the master, the finder shall bring him to the palace; a further investigation must follow, and the slave shall be returned to his master.

19. If he hold the slaves in his house, and they are caught there, he shall be put to death.

20. If the slave that he caught run away from him, then shall he swear to the owners of the slave, and he is free of all blame.


117. If any one fail to meet a claim for debt, and sell himself, his wife, his son, and daughter for money or give them away to forced labor: they shall work for three years in the house of the man who bought them, or the proprietor, and in the fourth year they shall be set free.

118. If he give a male or female slave away for forced labor, and the merchant sublease them, or sell them for money, no objection can be raised.

119. If any one fail to meet a claim for debt, and he sell the maid servant who has borne him children, for money, the money which the merchant has paid shall be repaid to him by the owner of the slave and she shall be freed.]]> 2020-03-04 22:10:34 UTC https://padlet.com/cmendoza204745/bnwesnanxwww/wish/454710962 cmendoza204745 https://padlet.com/cmendoza204745/bnwesnanxwww/wish/454711336 150. If a man give his wife a field, garden, and house and a deed therefor, if then after the death of her husband the sons raise no claim, then the mother may bequeath all to one of her sons whom she prefers, and need leave nothing to his brothers.

162. If a man marry a woman, and she bear sons to him; if then this woman die, then shall her father have no claim on her dowry; this belongs to her sons.

165. If a man give to one of his sons whom he prefers a field, garden, and house, and a deed therefor: if later the father die, and the brothers divide the estate, then they shall first give him the present of his father, and he shall accept it; and the rest of the paternal property shall they divide.

166. If a man take wives for his son, but take no wife for his minor son, and if then he die: if the sons divide the estate, they shall set aside besides his portion the money for the "purchase price" for the minor brother who had taken no wife as yet, and secure a wife for him.

167. If a man marry a wife and she bear him children: if this wife die and he then take another wife and she bear him children: if then the father die, the sons must not partition the estate according to the mothers, they shall divide the dowries of their mothers only in this way; the paternal estate they shall divide equally with one another.

170. If his wife bear sons to a man, or his maid-servant have borne sons, and the father while still living says to the children whom his maid-servant has borne: "My sons," and he count them with the sons of his wife; if then the father die, then the sons of the wife and of the maid-servant shall divide the paternal property in common. The son of the wife is to partition and choose.

171. If, however, the father while still living did not say to the sons of the maid-servant: "My sons," and then the father dies, then the sons of the maid-servant shall not share with the sons of the wife, but the freedom of the maid and her sons shall be granted. The sons of the wife shall have no right to enslave the sons of the maid; the wife shall take her dowry (from her father), and the gift that her husband gave her and deeded to her (separate from dowry, or the purchase-money paid her father), and live in the home of her husband: so long as she lives she shall use it, it shall not be sold for money. Whatever she leaves shall belong to her children.

172. If her husband made her no gift, she shall be compensated for her gift, and she shall receive a portion from the estate of her husband, equal to that of one child. If her sons oppress her, to force her out of the house, the judge shall examine into the matter, and if the sons are at fault the woman shall not leave her husband's house. If the woman desire to leave the house, she must leave to her sons the gift which her husband gave her, but she may take the dowry of her father's house. Then she may marry the man of her heart.

173. If this woman bear sons to her second husband, in the place to which she went, and then die, her earlier and later sons shall divide the dowry between them.

174. If she bear no sons to her second husband, the sons of her first husband shall have the dowry.

]]> 2020-03-04 22:11:30 UTC https://padlet.com/cmendoza204745/bnwesnanxwww/wish/454711336 cmendoza204745 https://padlet.com/cmendoza204745/bnwesnanxwww/wish/454712030 To me I think that majority of the laws are a little bit much but I also feel like it is fair to everyone because everyone had to follow them no matter what. I believe the laws that allow women the freedom to divorce and such are very fair. I think that for being in the early history Hammurabi was very far ahead with women's rights]]> 2020-03-04 22:13:17 UTC https://padlet.com/cmendoza204745/bnwesnanxwww/wish/454712030 cmendoza204745 https://padlet.com/cmendoza204745/bnwesnanxwww/wish/454712991 142. If a woman quarrel with her husband, and say: "You are not congenial to me," the reasons for her prejudice must be presented. If she is guiltless, and there is no fault on her part, but he leaves and neglects her, then no guilt attaches to this woman, she shall take her dowry and go back to her father's house.]]> 2020-03-04 22:15:19 UTC https://padlet.com/cmendoza204745/bnwesnanxwww/wish/454712991 cmendoza204745 https://padlet.com/cmendoza204745/bnwesnanxwww/wish/454713296 Hammurabi's Code
"If he has borne false witness in a civil law case, he shall pay the damages in that suit"
"If a life has been lost, the city or district governor shall pay one mina of silver"
If a man has taken a wife and has not executed a marriage contract, that woman is not a wife"

Today's Laws
If a person is convicted of perjury he shall be punished by a fine of no more than $1,000, imprisonment, or both.
If a person dies, the city pays nothing.
A couple must have gone through the whole process of divorce in order to marry someone else"]]> 2020-03-04 22:15:59 UTC https://padlet.com/cmendoza204745/bnwesnanxwww/wish/454713296 cmendoza204745 https://padlet.com/cmendoza204745/bnwesnanxwww/wish/454713656  196. If a man destroys the eye of another man, they shall destroy his eye.

 215. If a physician operates on a man for a sever wound with a bronze lancet and saves the man's life, or if he opens an abscess in the eye of a man with a bronze lancet and saves that man's eye, he shall receive ten shekels of silver.

 229. If a builder builds a house for a man and does not make its construction sound, and the house which he has built collapses and causes the death of the owner of the house, the builder shall be put to death.

It is as if he was bored and decided to make these three laws because they are so random and detailed for being as ridiculous as they sound. ]]> 2020-03-04 22:16:49 UTC https://padlet.com/cmendoza204745/bnwesnanxwww/wish/454713656 cmendoza204745 https://padlet.com/cmendoza204745/bnwesnanxwww/wish/454714226 He that shall put down/mock any music genre will pay with the detachment of his ears.

He that shall make the Italian hands in mock with lose both hands as punishment and be thrown into the water. 

He or she that hits a person of the opposing sex will be hit back on equal terms.]]> 2020-03-04 22:18:01 UTC https://padlet.com/cmendoza204745/bnwesnanxwww/wish/454714226 cmendoza204745 https://padlet.com/cmendoza204745/bnwesnanxwww/wish/454714942 Hammurabi was the king of Babylon, in 1790 b.c.

He established a set of laws called Hammurabi's Code. He improved the system of irrigation, and an organized army.

Hammurabi compares to Moses and the 10 commandments because they are bot a set of laws that formed their empire.]]> 2020-03-04 22:19:57 UTC https://padlet.com/cmendoza204745/bnwesnanxwww/wish/454714942