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    The Code of Hammurabi is a Babylonian legal text composed during 1755–1750 BC. It is the longest, best-organized, and best-preserved legal text from the...
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    all of Mesopotamia under Babylonian rule. Hammurabi is best known for having issued the Code of Hammurabi, which he claimed to have received from Shamash...
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    Ur-Nammu. As it is more detailed than that earlier code, it paved the way for the famous later Code of Hammurabi. Lipit-Ishtar (r. 1934 – 1924 BCE (MC)) was...
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    (11th ed.). Krause. pp. 1069–70. ISBN 978-1-4402-0450-0. Hammurabi (1903). "Code of Hammurabi, King of Babylon". Records of the Past. 2 (3). Translated...
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  • placed in rivers to be eaten by sharks and crocodiles. Sharia law Code of Hammurabi Sa Aking Mga Kabata Justiniano 2011. "Kalantiaw : The Hoax". paulmorrow...
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    law-codes existed, such as the Code of Urukagina, this represents the earliest extant legal text. It is three centuries older than the Code of Hammurabi....
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  • Eye for an eye (category Codes of conduct)
    for measure. The earliest known use of the principle appears in the Code of Hammurabi, which predates the Hebrew Bible. The law of exact retaliation (Latin:...
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    NY: Charles Scribner's Sons. p. 1955. ISBN 0-684-19279-9. Hammurabi (1903). "Code of Hammurabi, King of Babylon". Records of the Past. 2 (3). Translated...
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    Law of Moses (redirect from Mosaic Code)
    law). This contrasts with the Sumerian Code of Ur-Nammu (c. 2100–2050 BCE), and the Babylonian Code of Hammurabi (c. 1760 BCE, of which almost half concerns...
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    Babylonian law (category Hammurabi)
    very similar to the code of Hammurabi. The discovery of the now-celebrated Code of Hammurabi (hereinafter simply termed "the Code") has made possible...
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