Hammurabis Code

William Jordan
Date: 11-14-2011
Unit 1: lesson 5 assignment

Lesson 5 assignment

Hammurabis Code
1. Below, postulate the first 10 of Hammurabis laws. You will need to use your mental lexicon to understand some unfamiliar words.
2. Select 3 laws that you bet are interesting.
3. Copy (cut and paste) the 3 laws you selected to a Word document.
4. border a full paragraph (10 sentences or more) on to each one of the laws you selected. Each paragraph should include the following: (a) Your interpretation or translation of the law into every day, simple Ameri spate incline ( non slang), (b) A few sentences telling whether you think the law is goodness or bad and why it is good or bad, and (c) several(prenominal) sentences of your opinion of how this law could or could not be apply today.

Laws

1. If anyone bring an direction against a man and the impeach go to the river and leap into the river, if he sinks in the river, his accuser shall take pigheadedness of his house. hardly if the river proves that the accused is not guilty, and he escapes unhurt, wherefore he who had brought the accusation shall be put to death, while he who leaped into the river shall take possession of the house that had belonged to his accuser.

2.



If anyone brings an accusation of any crime before the elders, and does not prove what he has charged, he shall, if it be a capital of the United States offense charged, be put to death.

3. If a judge tries a case, reaches a decision, and presents his judgment in writing; if later fracture shall appear in his decision, and it be through his own fault, then he shall pay twelve times the fine caste by him in the case, and he shall be publicly removed(p) from the judges bench, and never again shall he sit there to demonstrate judgment.

Work

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My view of this law is if the person being accused can let the river decide whether or not they accused is innocent. Because they remember that the river is sacred and that it can prove ones innocence or guiltiness, if they accused is...If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Orderessay



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