Thursday, January 30, 2014

Hammurabi's Code

1.)"If any one bring an accusation of any crime before the elders, and does not prove what he has charged, he shall, if it be a capital offense charged, be put to death". This law pretty much means that if you can't prove something, you should die because you were lying.
2.) "If a son of a paramour say to his adoptive father or mother: "You are not my father, or my mother," his tongue shall be cut off." I feel like this law is unfair because a lot of children don't like their step mom/dad, and this law limits what people can say.
3.) "If a man put out the eye of another man, his eye shall be put out." This is the law that everyone thinks about when they hear Hammurabi's code because it pretty much sums up all of the laws into one.

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