Hammurabi Laws Research Paper

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In this part of hammurabi’s laws were just we will talk about laws 53 & 54, and 48. Law 53 54 states that if you have dug a trench for irrigation and have destroyed a neighbor's crops you will replace them. I think this is just because if you have dug a trench for irrigation and have destroyed a neighbor's crops you will replace them so they won’t have to go through all of the hard work of finding more of those types of crops. Law 48 states that if you have borrowed money or crops to start a farm and a natural disaster comes and destroys those crops you won’t have to pay them back ( the person you borrowed from). I think this is just because you can’t stop a natural

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