2. If any one bring an accusation against a man, and the accused go to the river and leap into the river, if he sink in the river his accuser shall take possession of his house. But if the river prove that the accused is not guilty, and he escape unhurt, then he who had brought the accusation shall be put to death, while he who leaped into the river shall take possession of the house that had belonged to his accuser.
192. If a son of a paramour or a prostitute say to his adoptive father or mother: “You are not my father, or my mother,” his tongue shall be cut off.
195. If a so/8n strike his father, his hands shall be hewn off. 109
Hammurabi’s laws were brutal and ridiculous. these three laws will show you how unruly and unmean ing full they all are. the laws were rediculous because of all the killing property taking beheading hand chopping were all inapropiat and wrong. at the time those laws would probably common but today they would compleatly rediculouse. the laws were unruly becauase you could not do as many of the things today like freer laws going to a court room and speak to a juge in an aurgument agaist the man you acusedor acused of to either win or lose to be found not allways to death but money finds or just time in prison.
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November 16th, 2009 at 3:10 pm
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