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Hammurabi's Laws - College Essay

Hammurabi's Laws

In effort to build a strong and unified empire, Hammurabi
constructed a set of 300 laws to govern the everyday lives of his people.
Government has always been an important part of any civilization and should
contain laws and guide lines. Hammurabi's set of laws outlines the status
of the culture and what is expected of everyone.
The first law deals with false accusations. If you accuse someone
of casting a death spell on you, you'll be put to death. You needed to be
sure of what you were accusing a person of back then. Though we don't have
anything that deals with magic spells nowadays, people can sue each other
for false accusations. They were pretty strict about accusing someone ...

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get a fine or
jail time, and same for the person who received the goods, but wouldn't
receive a death sentence in most cases. You can see how str ict they were
on robbery back then, and probably not many robberies occurred. There were
also laws that dealt with stealing ox, sheep, ass, pig, or ship that,
unlike the previous laws, wasn't punishable by death but by a fine. In case
of kidnapping, the kidnapper would be put to death. Nowadays jail time
would probably result from such an action. Another law dealt with breaking
and entering a house. If you were caught of breaking and entering, you
would be put to death and buried at the house. Today a fine or jail time
would be given, which is another example of how harsh the law was back then.

Many of the laws of Old Babylonian culture was punishable by death.
For example, if you were to commit a basic robbery, highway robbery, then
you would instantly be put to death. Nowadays such an action would just get
you a fine or jail time ...

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Added: 10/2/2005 06:43:44 AM
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