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Excerpts from the Code of Hammurabi
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Excerpts from the Code of Hammurabi
3. If any one bring an accusation of any crime before the elders, and does not prove what he has c
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 judgment. 14. If any one steal the minor son of another, he shall be put to death.
22. If any one is committing a robbery and is caught, then he shall be put to death. 55. If any one open his ditches to water his crop, but is careless, and the water flood the field of his neighbor, then he shall pay his neighbor corn for his loss.
195. If a son strike his father, his hands shall be hewn [chopped] off.
196. If a man put out the eye of another man, his eye shall be put out
200. If a man knock out the teeth of his equal, his teeth shall be knocked out.
202. If any one strike the body of a man higher in rank than he, he shall receive sixty blows with an ox-hide whip in public.
203. If a free born man strike the body of another free born man of equal rank, he shall pay one gold mina [a weight of 1.25 pounds].
205. If the slave of a freed man strike the body of a freed man, his ear shall be cut off.
2. Which of those are considered crimes today? Which are not?
3. What punishments do these excerpts from the Code of Hammurabi identify
4. Which of those punishments are used today? Which are not?
5. Based on these short excerpts from the code, how do you think Hammurabi
defined justice? How would you check the accuracy of your assessment?
6. In what ways do our codes of law today show similarities to and differences from the concept of justice as shown in these short excerpts from Hammurabi’s Code?
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