Hammurabi's Code
If we're going to post ancient laws in our courthouses, I think we should really go all the way back to the source: Hammurabi's Code of Laws, one of the first known sets of written laws.
My favorite?
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.
posted by Luke Francl @ 10:42 PM |
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Heh, no kidding!
I thought that was a good one too. Sort of a primitive insurance industry.
Yeah, and the nice thing about Hammurabi's Code is that it really lends itself to an obelisk motif. So much cooler than some bronze tablet bolted to a chunk of granite, the preferred intallation of hick judges everywhere.
How about this one:
If a man wishes to separate from his wife who has borne him no children, he shall give her the amount of her purchase money and the dowry which she brought from her father's house, and let her go.
Maybe we should go back to the dowry system, damn women-folk...
And if the obelisk should fall on someone, we get to put the installer to death!
wat political view does the hammurabi code follow? liberal or conservative?
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