PSA 2 Territorial States and Legal Codes
(Doc 1) The Code of Hammurabi
Theft
6. If a man has stolen goods from a temple, or house, he shall be put to death; and he that has received the stolen
property from him shall be put to death
8. If a [rich man] has stolen ox, sheep, ass, pig, or goat, whether from a temple, or a house, he shall pay
thirtyfold. If he [is a poor man] he shall return tenfold. If the thief cannot pay, he shall be put to death
Family
128. If a man take a woman to wife, but have no intercourse with her, this woman is no wife to him
129. If a man's wife be surprised (in flagrante delicto or caught red-handed) with another man, both shall be tied
and thrown into the water, but the husband may pardon his wife
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.
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.
163. If a man marry a woman and she bear him no sons; if then this woman die, if the "purchase price" which he
had paid into the house of his father-in-law is repaid to him, her husband shall have no claim upon the dowry of
this woman; it belongs to her father's house.
Assault
195. If a son strike his father, his hands shall be hewn off.
196. If a man put out the eye of another man, his eye shall be put out.
200. If a man knock out the teeth of his equal, his teeth shall be knocked out.
Liability
229 If a builder build a house for someone, and does not construct it properly, and the house which he built fall
in and kill its owner, then that builder shall be put to death.
(Doc 2) Egyptian Legal Code
Marriage agreement between a bridegroom and his father-in-law c. 3,000-1,000 BCE
Year 23, Month 1 of the Planting season, day 5. This day, Telmontu declared to the Chief Workman Khonsu
and the scribe Amon-nakht, son of Ipui: “Cause Nakhemmut to swear an Oath to the Lord to the effect that he
will not depart from my daughter.”
The Oath of the Lord which he swore: “As Amon lives, as the Ruler lives, if I should turn away and leave the
daughter of Telmontu at any time, I will receive a hundred blows and be deprived of all profits that I have made
with her.
The Chief Workman Khonsu, The Scribe Amon-nakht, Neferhor, Khaemnun
Egyptian Contract for Adoption, c. 2000 B.C.E.
ARAD-ISKHARA, son of Ibni-Shamash, has adopted Ibni-Shamash. On the day when Arad-Iskhara to IbniShamash, his father, shall say, "You are not my father," he shall bind him with a chain and sell him for money.
When Ibni-Shamash to Arad-Iskhara, his son, shall say, "You are not my son," he shall depart from house and
household goods; but a son shall he remain and inherit with his sons.
(Doc 3) The Code of Manu
CHAPTER 9.
2. Day and night woman must be kept in dependence by the males (of) their (families), and, if they attach
themselves to sensual enjoyments, they must be kept under one's control.
3. Her father protects (her) in childhood, her husband protects (her) in youth, and her sons protect (her) in old
age; a woman is never fit for independence.
4. Reprehensible is the father who gives not (his daughter in marriage) at the proper time; reprehensible is the
husband who approaches not (his wife in due season), and reprehensible is the son who does not protect his
mother after her husband has died.
5. Women must particularly be guarded against evil inclinations, however trifling (they may appear); for, if they
are not guarded, they will bring sorrow on two families.
6. Considering that the highest duty of all castes [varnas], even weak husbands (must) strive to guard their
wives.
7. He who carefully guards his wife, preserves (the purity of) his offspring, virtuous conduct, his family,
himself, and his (means of acquiring) merit.
11. Let the (husband) employ his (wife) in the collection and expenditure of his wealth, in keeping (everything)
clean, in (the fulfilment of) religious duties, in the preparation of his food, and in looking after the household
utensils.
12. Women, confined in the house under trustworthy and obedient servants, are not (well) guarded; but those
who of their own accord keep guard over themselves, are well guarded.
13. Drinking (spirituous liquor), associating with wicked people, separation from the husband, rambling abroad,
sleeping (at unseasonable hours), and dwelling in other men's houses, are the six causes of the ruin of women.
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