id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 17150 Hammurabi, King of Babylonia The Oldest Code of Laws in the World The code of laws promulgated by Hammurabi, King of Babylon, B.C. 2285-2242 .txt text/plain 17953 1353 86 the owner of the slave shall pay him two shekels of silver. slave has been seized in his hand, that man shall be put to death. constable, or tributary shall return to his field, garden, or house, and cut down a tree in a man's orchard, he shall pay half a mina of silver. the marriage portion which she brought from her father's house, and shall returned him the dowry that that man brought to the house of his fatherin-law, her husband shall have no claim on the marriage portion of that father's house; the sons that are sons of the wife at the sharing shall wife in the goods of the father's house, one shall assign the maidservant If a man has hired a working ox for one year, he shall pay corn and has not caused it to grow in the field, that man one shall put ./cache/17150.txt ./txt/17150.txt