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Question

Explain Law Code of Hammurabi.

Answer 1

The Code of Hammurabi

The code of Hammurabi refers to a preserved code of law of Babylon that constitutes sets of laws that were used to regulate ancient Mesopotamia (Pyrcz, 2019). The code of law was written a long time ago about 1754 BC. The Hammurabi code of law constitutes various provisions that guide the general conduct of people in daily activities (Pyrcz, 2019). The code of law was enacted by the sixth Babylonian king who goes by the name king Hammurabi, after which the code of law was named and written on a 7.4 feet stone steel. Generally, the entire code of law constitutes 282 provisions of law which generally involved scaled punishments in the context of gender and social stratification hence eliminating vices and ensuring justice and equality in the society (Abulhab, 2017). The code is dominated by provisions that deal with the issues of contract agreement, for instance, the wages that are supposed to be paid to a service provider in a contract, like an ox-driver in ancient Mesopotamia. The code also has a second tire of provisions that deals mainly with the set of terms in any form of transaction. It also determines the liability that is supposed to be incurred by a boulder of a house that collapses (Pyrcz, 2019). The document also has a provision that sanctions the punishment of a judge who revokes his/her decision after making a judgment.

Reference

Abulhab, S. D. (2017). The Law Code of Hammurabi: Transliterated and Literally Translated from its Early Classical Arabic Language. Blautopf Publishing.

Pyrcz, A. A. (2019). Set in stone: The ancient Babylonian law code of King Hammurabi. Agora, 54(1), 11.