Hammurabi Law Code

The law code of Hammurabi Rain Sobieski

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 for 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 elaborate. And if it weren't for their illiterate peoples, then another point to consider is if it was for the educated guards sent to arrest and warrant the civilians. Considering how strict and instructed their rules were, it could be a strong source of power (if not dictatorship) to leave the lesser society misinformed as to what is a crime, and what is not. This being so, would leave the guards with strict instructions when it …show more content…
Wives were expected to respect and submit, while their husbands were expected to provide and respectfully dominate. This was at a similar level with slave treatment, though to a much more violent and extremist degree. But the laws also further entail to how a man should be punished based on choices (unless thoroughly proven as accidents) that he has made; Most of them end in death, so it'd either be safe to assume that there was no shortage of Babylonian people, or they had it in their trust that their people would be wise enough not to commit acts of murder, or crimes punishable by