Code of Hammurabi
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The Code of Hammurabi (Codex Hammurabi ) is the best-preserved ancient law code, created ca. 1760 BC (middle chronology) in ancient Babylon. It was enacted by the sixth Babylonian king, Hammurabi.
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- List of ancient legal codes
- Urukagina - Sumerian king and creator of what is sometimes cited as the first example of a legal code in recorded history.
- Code of Ur-Nammu - the oldest known tablet containing a law code surviving today, it predates the Code of Hammurabi by some 300 years.
- Code of the Assura
- Babylonian law
- Cuneiform Law
- Quid pro quo
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