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Code of Hammurabi

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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One claims that it has superior air power and land cover to face any eventuality while the other is ever ready to execute the Hammurabi code, 'a tooth for a tooth.'

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The cradle of civilisation which gave us the first code of conduct called the Hammurabi Code (1750 BC) as indeed the worst tyrant called Nebuchadnezzar -2.3.

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The basis for our laws today - the Hammurabi code, accompanied by the biblical "an eye for an eye" (Exodus and Leviticus) - demands instant retribution for offenses.

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For example, the Hammurabi Code, written almost four thousand years ago, includes a law preventing a merchant from recording a transaction unless he has sealed and signed off on the receipt of money.

(1) The Hammurabi Code is more famous for law 196 which has been summarized as an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.

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Teaching medical ethics: A teaching module based on PBL, Good medical practice, Nebuchadnezzar and the Hammurabi code. Assisted Reproductive Technologies i.e.

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It's generally accepted that the first written insurance agreement was established with the Hammurabi code. It took quite a while--over 3,000 years--before humankind could establish enough understanding of risk transfer and mathematics and analyze enough data to develop the first actuary tables in the late 1600s.

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For many Bible critics, the discovery through archeology of various ancient-world mythologies and legal codes, of which the Hammurabi Code is probably the best known, is sufficient proof that the Pentateuch and the complex legal system that developed from it did not originate with Moses but evolved from various other sources that preceded it.

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Upon an obelisk in the Louvre in Paris is inscribed a quote from the Hammurabi Code:

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Students solve a number of problems Hammurabi faced, examine the complete Hammurabi code, and gain access to a number of related links.

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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.