The Law Code of Hammurabi. (Complete Translation)

The Yale School of Law. ^ | ~3000BC translated 1996. FR Post 8-26-02 | Translated by L. W. King

[vannrox]

Well worth reading. Maybe some of our liberal friends might learn a thing or two.

Anyone have a favorite law?

[Born to Conserve]

Corn?

I guess there really was trade between the old and new worlds back then.

Or maybe the translators are not worth their salt.

[r9etb]

If the translator is British, "corn" means nothing more than "grain".

[Cable225]

Anyone have a favorite law?

3. If any one bring an accusation of any crime before the elders, and does not prove what he has charged, he shall, if it be a capital offense charged, be put to death.

Goodbye tobacco lawsuits, goodbye fast-food lawsuits, goodbye gun manufacturer lawsuits, etc. So simple, and yet so powerful.

[Cacique]

The correct word is Maize from the Aztec. Maize is the word for what North Americans call cork out of usage. Spanish speaking peoples have continued to use the word maize. Interestingly enough, the Italians also call maize "grano turco" or Turkish grain.

[Smedley]

Interestingly enough, the King James Version of the Bible uses the word "corn" 102 times.

http://www.godandscience.org/cults/corn.html

The explaination is not one of error, but of word usage. The word "corn" had a different meaning then than it does now. The word "corn" used to refer to any grain, but especially wheat.

[Quester]

Not quite the equivalent of the Ten Commandments, eh ? ... (as I had been previously led to believe).

[Lurking Libertarian]

229 If a builder build a house for some one, 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.

230. If it kill the son of the owner the son of that builder shall be put to death.

Compare this to the Hebrew Bible:

Exodus 20:31: "Whether he have gored a son, or have gored a daughter, according to this judgment shall it be done unto him."

[Constitution Day]

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[Burkeman1]

Nope. Today that law would read:

If anyone bring a charge that he cannot prove the judge still must consider the case, even if the charge be absurd. And the accused must pay large fines to defend himself or may opt to pay an agreed upon sum to the accuser to make him go away. The accuser will then pay a portion of his ransom to officials of the government so that they may continue to bring frivolous accusations before judges.

[facedown]

Bump

[Consort]

278. If any one buy a male or female slave, and before a month has elapsed the benu-disease be developed, he shall return the slave to the seller, and receive the money which he had paid.

Warranties, mail-in rebates, and no hastle returns are big selling points.

[El Sordo]

Historical Bump.

[weikel]

Me too false accusations should be a capital crime.

[blam]

Neat! Thanks.

[SunkenCiv]

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[Monkey Face]

I saved it. I will print it and read it as a Great Book. It is worth the effort of wading through it (for me, with CFIDS, a monumental project!)

[Pharmboy]

I always hate when benu disease develops.

[RegulatorCountry]

Corn, kernel, same root. Used interchangeably at one point but no longer, not in standard American usage at least.

[COBOL2Java]

#25 is interesting: “If fire break out in a house, and some one who comes to put it out cast his eye upon the property of the owner of the house, and take the property of the master of the house, he shall be thrown into that self-same fire.”

Harsh!