Va mai amintiti de Codul lui Hammurabi, prima codificare de legi ori pravila cunoscuta pina in zilele noastre si despre care mai toti am invat in cursurile de istorie.

Side view of the 'fingertip' Created c. 1754 BC Author(s) Purpose The Code of Hammurabi is a well-preserved of ancient, dating back to about 1754 BC (). It is one of the oldest deciphered writings of significant length in the world. The sixth Babylonian king,, enacted the code, and partial copies exist on a 2.25 metre (7.5 ft) stone and consists of 282 laws, with scaled punishments, adjusting 'an, a tooth for a tooth' ( lex talionis) as graded depending on social status, of slave versus free man or woman. Nearly one-half of the code deals with matters of contract, establishing, for example, the wages to be paid to an ox driver or a surgeon. Other provisions set the terms of a transaction, establishing the liability of a builder for a house that collapses, for example, or property that is damaged while left in the care of another.

A third of the code addresses issues concerning household and family relationships such as inheritance, divorce, paternity, and. Only one provision appears to impose obligations on an official; this provision establishes that a judge who reaches an incorrect decision is to be fined and removed from the bench permanently. A few provisions address issues related to military service.

The code was discovered by modern in 1901, and its translation published in 1902. This nearly complete example of the code is carved into a basalt stele in the shape of a huge, 2.25 m (7.4 ft) tall. The code is inscribed in the, using carved into the stele. It is currently on display in the, with replicas in the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago, the Clendening History of Medicine Library & Museum at the University of Kansas Medical Center, the library of the in the Netherlands, the of Berlin, the Arts Faculty of the University of Leuven in Belgium, the in Tehran, and the Department of Anthropology,,.

Codul lui Hammurabi - Universitatea “Nicolae Titulescu” Facultatea de Drept Specializarea Drept Codul lui Hammurabi drept. Cred ca totii stiti ce este codul lui Hammurabi daca nu urmatorul text o sa va explice acest lucru. 'Codul lui Hammurabi (sau Hammurapi sau Codex Hammurapi) este cea.

Two versions of the Code at the ruled for nearly 42 years, from about 1792 to 1749 BC according to the. In the preface to the law, he states, ' and called by name me, Hammurabi, the exalted prince, who feared God, to bring about the rule of righteousness in the land, to destroy the wicked and the evil-doers; so that the strong should not harm the weak; so that I should rule over the black-headed people like, and enlighten the land, to further the well-being of mankind.' On the stone slab are 44 columns and 28 paragraphs that contained 282 laws. Some of these laws follow along the rules of 'an eye for an eye'. It had been taken as plunder by the Elamite king in the 12th century BC and was taken to in (located in the present-day of Iran) where it was no longer available to the Babylonian people.

Cakewalk Si String Section Vsti S. However, when brought both Babylon and Susa under the rule of his, and placed copies of the document in the, the text became available for all the peoples of the vast Persian Empire to view. In 1901, Egyptologist, a member of an expedition headed by, found the stele containing the Code of Hammurabi during archaeological excavations at the ancient site of Susa in Khuzestan. Laws of Hammurabi's Code [ ]. Main article: The Code of Hammurabi was one of only sets of laws in the and also one of the first forms of law. The code of laws was arranged in orderly groups, so that all who read the laws would know what was required of them. Earlier collections of laws include the, king of (c.

2050 BC), the (c. 1930 BC) and the codex of of (c. 1870 BC), while later ones include the, the, and. These codes come from similar cultures in a relatively small geographical area, and they have passages which resemble each other. Figures at top of stele 'fingernail' above Hammurabi's code of laws The Code of Hammurabi is the longest surviving text from the Old Babylonian period.

The code has been seen as an early example of a fundamental law, regulating a government — i.e., a primitive. The code is also one of the earliest examples of the idea of, and it also suggests that both the accused and accuser have the opportunity to provide. The occasional nature of many provisions suggests that the code may be better understood as a codification of Hammurabi's supplementary judicial decisions, and that, by memorializing his wisdom and justice, its purpose may have been the self-glorification of Hammurabi rather than a modern legal code or constitution. However, its copying in subsequent generations indicates that it was used as a model of legal and judicial reasoning. While the Code of Hammurabi was trying to achieve equality, biases still existed towards those categorized in the lower end of the social spectrum and some of the punishments and justice could be gruesome. The magnitude of criminal penalties often was based on the identity and gender of both the person committing the crime and the victim.