Is this not what most of Civilized Society’s Laws are based on?
Without a verified unbroken chain of related evidence, that's just conjecture; otherwise known as an educated guess, AKA as maybe, maybe not.
It's the same module everywhere on the planet.
Elaborations occur when the need to accommodate large groups comes into existence.
There are a number of variations on a theme ~ you can read about them in history ~ and then there are the degrees to which the leadership principle is used to allow some individuals to abuse others.
Some societies create a nobility that suppresses the broad masses ~ actually, almost all societies do that. 99.999% of known history is involved with the comings and goings of nobles.
0.001% of known history concerns a different form ~ for example, our own.
Hammurabi's Code was a public brief of the thoughts of the King and his nobles. It's purpose was to set the bounds of acceptable behavior, and to announce suitable punishments.
It was noted back during the Kelo v. New London CT discussions that the the USSC's vote to allow New London to force homeowners off their land to make way for other homeowners was prohibited in Hammurabi's code, and enforced with the death penalty for public officials who did that sort of thing
Later Hebraic Law and an ancient Jewish tradition paralleled Hammurabi's code perfectly.
So, no, Hammurabi's code isn't the basis of all our laws ~ he sought to control theft and official corruption ~ our courts don't care.
Thanks! The code of Hammurabi didn’t much survive the king, and wound up lost for thousands of years, until the cuneiform writing system was cracked, using an archive of Akkadian texts. As Samuel Noah Cramer pointed out, it was found that cuneiform (though a very flexible system) had been “hacked” to work with Akkadian, and that they’d borrowed it from some unknown source. Other tablets which could be pronounced but not translated were in Sumerian, were older, and the cracking of Sumerian may have been the greatest translation achievement in history. :’)