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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.
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For example, the law pertaining to ox goring (Exodus 21:35) is like that found in the Hammurabi code and in other ancient law codes, which suggests that the Hebrew regulation simply reflected current near-Eastern legal practice.
Who makes the rules? by Larue, Gerald A. / The Humanist
Reparation to victims was a cardinal principle of early societies, as exemplified in the ancent Hammurabi Code in the Middle East, the Law of Moses and Indian Hinduism.
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