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Edited on Fri Nov-14-03 09:38 PM by ThorsteinVeblen
An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. Or does that only apply to those who make under 300K a year? I say we revolt. What about you? Conseratives have not evovled in thought in over 4,000 years. 15: If any one take a male or female slave of the court, or a male or female slave of a freed man, outside the city gates , he shall be put to death.
16: If any one receive into his house a runaway male or female slave of the court, or of a freedman, and does not bring it out at the public proclamation of the , the master of the house shall be put to death.
53: If any one be too lazy to keep his dam in proper condition, and does not so keep it; if then the dam break and all the fields be flooded, then shall he in whose dam the break occurred be sold for money, and the money shall replace the which he has caused to be ruined.
54: If he be not able to replace the , then he and his possessions shall be divided among the farmers whose corn he has flooded.
108: If a does not accept according to gross weight in payment of drink, but takes money, and the price of the drink is less than that of the corn, she shall be convicted and thrown into the water. (1)
109: If conspirators meet in the house of a , and these conspirators are not captured and delivered to the court, the shall be put to death.
110: If a "sister of a god" open a tavern, or enter a tavern to drink, then shall this woman be burned to death.
129: If a man's wife be surprised with another man, both shall be tied and thrown into the water, but the husband may pardon his wife and the king his slaves.
130: If a man violate the wife (betrothed or child-wife) of another man, who has never known a man, and still lives in her father's house, and sleep with her and be surprised , this man shall be put to death, but the wife is blameless.
131: If a man bring a charge against wife, but she is not surprised with another man, she must take an oath and then may return to her house.
132: If the "finger is pointed" at a man's wife about another man, but she is not caught sleeping with the other man, she shall jump into the river for husband. (2)
138: If a man wishes to separate from his wife who has borne him no children, he shall give her the amount of her purchase money and the dowry which she brought from her father's house, and let her go.
141: If a man's wife, who lives in his house, wishes to leave it, plunges into debt , tries to ruin her house, neglects her husband, and is judicially convicted: if her husband offer her release, she may go on her way, and he gives her nothing as a gift of release. If her husband does not wish to release her, and if he take another wife, she shall remain as servant in her husband's house.
142: If a woman quarrel with her husband, and say: "You are not congenial to me," the reasons for her prejudice must be presented. If she is guiltless, and there is no fault on her part, but he leaves and neglects her, then no guilt attaches to this woman, she shall take her dowry and go back to her father's house. (3)
143: If she is not innocent, but leaves her husband, and ruins her house, neglecting her husband, this woman shall be cast into the water.
195: If a son strike his father, his hands shall be off. (4)
196: If a man put out the eye of another man, his eye shall be put out. (5)
197: If he break another man's bone, his bone shall be broken.
198: If he put out the eye of a , or break the bone of a , he shall pay one mina.
199: If he put out the eye of a man's slave, or break the bone of a man's slave, he shall pay one-half of its value.
200: If a man knock out the teeth of his equal, his teeth shall be knocked out.
201: If he knock out the teeth of a , he shall pay one-third of a mina.
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