Hammurabi’s Law Code
Purpose
Modern Law
143. If a wife has been… neglecting her house and belittling her husband, they shall throw that woman into the water.
To make sure women obeyed their husbands.
-Child neglect or harassment
-Domestic Abuse
195. If a son has struck his father, they shall cut off his hand.
So that sons will respect their fathers.
196. If a man has destroyed the eye of another man, his own eye shall be destroyed.
198. If he destroyed the eye of a peasant, or broken a bone of a peasant, he shall pay one mina of silver.
199. If he destroyed the eye of a man’s slave, or broken a bone of a man’s slave, he shall pay half his value.
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Hammurabi’s Law Code
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