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Code of Hammurabi |
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The Code of Hammurabi was a comprehensive set of laws, considered by many scholars to be the oldest laws established; they were handed down four thousand years ago by King Hammurabi of Babylon. Although the Code of Hammurabi was essentially humanitarian in its intent and orientation, it contained the "eye for an eye" theory of punishment, which is a barbarian application of the concept of making the punishment fit the crime. The Code of Hammurabi recognized such modern concepts as that of corporate personality. Want to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit the webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Mallat offers a rough periodization of Middle Eastern law corresponding to three linguistic blocs: 3000 BC to 1000 BC, the Akkadian-Sumerian period, of which the most significant text is Hammurabi's Code with Akkadian as the lingua franca; 1000 BC to 500 AD, the Assyrian-Syriac period, crowned in the fifth century by the Syro-Roman Code, with Syriac-Aramaic as the lingua franca; late 6th century to present, the Islamic period with the sharia and Arabic as the lingua franca. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] CRITICAL THINKING Capital punishment is included in one of the first written codes of law, King Hammurabi's code, from Babylonia, around 1750 B. Hammurabi's Code of Laws actually contained specific references to building construction. |
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