[nickcarraway]

[PeterPrinciple]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legality_of_incest

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Interesting map of where incest is legal.

[P.O.E.]

It’s been my understanding that “an eye for an eye” was an improvement. In other words, equal compensation, so to speak. To prevent harsher judgments.

[Openurmind]

5. If a judge try a case, reach a decision, and present his judgment in writing; if later error shall appear in his decision, and it be through his own fault, then he shall pay twelve times the fine set by him in the case, and he shall be publicly removed from the judge’s bench, and never again shall he sit there to render judgement.

[Rockingham]

What we refer to as the Code of Hammurabi was actually a compilation of the king's decisions in specific cases brought before him. In effect, the king's directives were recorded so as to assure consistency in future cases and to give the public notice of how the king's powers would be applied.

A similar system based on decisions in courts led to the development of the common law in England, which was carried over to America in the colonial era and remains viable today.

[Secret Agent Man]

I agree that false accusers need to suffer the most severe sentence for whatever crime they tried to frame the innocent person/people for.