Hammurabis Laws
McKenna O’Kane
August 14, 2013
Period 7
Hammurabi’s Code of Laws
Law 8.) Stealing * If a man were to get caught stealing, depending on what the item was they would either get a large fine or it could even result in spending time in jail.
Law 142.) Going back home/Divorce * In today’s world if a man belittled or neglected his wife she would have the right to “go back to her fathers house” or divorce him.
Law 143.) Women is at fault * Today if a woman were at fault she would not be thrown into a river. Nobody has the right to do that. In today’s world if she did something very bad she could go to jail but not thrown into a river.
Law 196.) Violence * The man that got his eye put out has the right to defend himself. If a man put another man’s eye out and the other guy did it right back they would both go to jail.
Law 198.) Puts of the eye or breaks the bone of a freed man * Regardless if a man is a slave or a freed man in today’s world if you put out the eye of a freed man you would be prosecuted and put into jail for violence.
Law 199.) Puts out the eye or break a bone of a man’s slave * Today, there is not slavery so if a man were to put out the eye of someone’s worker or broke a man’s bone they would be put in jail and pay a fine just as they did in the ancient
August 14, 2013
Period 7
Hammurabi’s Code of Laws
Law 8.) Stealing * If a man were to get caught stealing, depending on what the item was they would either get a large fine or it could even result in spending time in jail.
Law 142.) Going back home/Divorce * In today’s world if a man belittled or neglected his wife she would have the right to “go back to her fathers house” or divorce him.
Law 143.) Women is at fault * Today if a woman were at fault she would not be thrown into a river. Nobody has the right to do that. In today’s world if she did something very bad she could go to jail but not thrown into a river.
Law 196.) Violence * The man that got his eye put out has the right to defend himself. If a man put another man’s eye out and the other guy did it right back they would both go to jail.
Law 198.) Puts of the eye or breaks the bone of a freed man * Regardless if a man is a slave or a freed man in today’s world if you put out the eye of a freed man you would be prosecuted and put into jail for violence.
Law 199.) Puts out the eye or break a bone of a man’s slave * Today, there is not slavery so if a man were to put out the eye of someone’s worker or broke a man’s bone they would be put in jail and pay a fine just as they did in the ancient