The law code of Hammurabi contains laws that are in their own, very specific, each pertaining to what almost seems like a different arrangement of answers to questions asked in the court. With how many laws there are, and how detailed each one is, it might be safe to assume that perhaps the people tried to slip their way around the code. Plainly put, it could be almost humorous to imagine the impatience of priests as they add yet another law to the stone, after dealing with a defendant who had many solutions and excuses to his crimes. Or perhaps it was simply among the priests themselves, as they questioned whether or not their illiterate peoples could understand what exactly a certain law entailed, and decided that they themselves should
