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Project Gutenberg EPUB edition Hammurabi, King of Babylonia and Johns, C. H. W. (Claude Hermann Walter)
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Carrier’s privileges and responsibilities, 112.
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Cattle, damage feasant pauperies, 57.
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Changeling, foisted on parents, 194.
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Charges, for warehousing, 121. one-sixtieth value, 121.
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Children. See Custody, Mother, Remarriage, Widow. born of wife remarried, uuder impression her husband was dead, stay with second husband, 135. not to dispute mother’s settlement, 150. share equally at father’s death, 165. reserving settlements by deed, 165. of second marriage to be furnished with bride-price, or portion, 166. of different mothers, share separately own mother’s portions, 167. but father’s property equally, 167. of bride and maid share equally, if latter acknowledged as sons in father’s lifetime, former having preference, 170. otherwise, children of maid do not share, 171. of slave woman and free father are free, 171. of slave man and free mother are free, 175. these take half father’s goods at death, 175.
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Commission, trade on, 100-105. See Agent, Merchant.
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Compensation, for eviction of tenant, Y. for highway robbery, 23.
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Composition, for loss of life, 224. for bride-price, 139.
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Concubine, divorced, 137. not allowed, if wife provides maid, 144. allowed, if votary wife has no children, 145. not to rival wife, 145. father may give daughter as, 183. and give marriage portion, 183. if so, she has no share of his goods at his death, 183. otherwise, brothers must give her a portion, 184.
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Conjugal rights, denial of, 142.
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Constable, or bailiff, runner, 36-41. not to depute duty, 26. in enforced absence on royal business, 27. may depute, and resume on return, 27. son may be deputy, 28. provision for child, in absence, 29. neglect of benefice, 30. three years’ limit, 30. one year does not forfeit, 31. captured abroad on king’s business, 32. to be ransomed, 32. benefice inalienable, 33. benefice protected, 34. not to be hired out, 35. plundered, 35. oppressed, 35. sale of benefice illegal, 35. benefice not to be exchanged, 41.
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Corporate liability, 23, 32.
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Cow, in milk, hire of, 243.
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Creditor. See also Merchant. must not ill treat pledge for debt, 116. must release at end of three years, 117. may sell pledged slave, on removal, 118. may not repay himself from debtor’s goods, 113.
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Crop, assigned for debt, 51. sold at king’s price, 51.
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Crown, man’s. See Strength.
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Cultivation of fields— operations needful, 43.
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Custody of child, in mother, 29.
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Cutting down trees— assessment of damage, half mina of silver per tree, 59.
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Damage to crops, by sheep— assessed at twenty gur per gan, 57. to ripe crops, at sixty gur per gan, 58. by flooding field, 56. by cutting down trees, assessed at half mina of silver per tree, 59.
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Damages, for breach of contract, 42, 44. for eviction from purchase, 12. for eviction from house, Y.
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Damnum sine injuria, 115, 118, 123, 250.
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Date palm, plantation of, X.
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Daughter cannot inherit benefice, 38.
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Death penalty, inflicted for— witchcraft, 1. threatening witnesses, 3. perjury, 3. theft, 4. receiving stolen goods, 4. buying from domestic inferior, 7. taking on deposit from domestic inferior, 7. in default of multiple restitution, for theft of second order, 8. appropriation of lost properly, 9. selling lost property, 10. vexatious claim of property as lost, 11. kidnapping, 14. procuring desertion of slave, 15. harbouring fugitive slave, 18. ,, of defaulting militia, 16. detaining fugitive slave, 18. keeping recaptured slave, 19. housebreaking, 21. highway robbery, 22. theft at fire, 25. allowing seditious brawling in wine shop, 109. rape of betrothed maiden, 130. for ganger, constable, neglecting duty, 26. ,, ,, sending substitutes, 26. causing death of pregnant woman by assault, 210. for getting a slave branded unknown to owner, 227. for building so badly as to cause death of owner, 229. See also Burning, Drowning, Impalement.
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Debt, abatement for damage by storm, deluge, and drought, 48. not to be repaid from debtor’s goods, without his consent, 113. hostages for, 117. to be well treated, 118. released after three years, 117. of man before marriage, not binding on wife, 151. of woman before marriage, not binding on husband, 151. of both after marriage, binding on both, 151.
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Debtor’s risk, 48. privileged to pay in kind, Z.
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Deferred foreclosure, 48.
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Degradation from office, 5.
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Deification of river Euphrates, 2.
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Delegatus non potest delegare, 26, 33.
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Deposit. See Storage, Trust, Warehouse, 7. not recoverable unless witnessed and sealed for, 123. from domestic inferior, illegal without witnessed contract, 7.

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