UGC 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Quit-Rent, Tillage, Entrust
4 Apr 2016
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Hammurabi: 1700 bce: babylonian ruler hammurabi conquered the sumerians in. Mesopotamia and united the warring city states under his rule: set forth a detailed legal code: 282 laws governing military service, property ownership, business, transactions, and family relations. Donnelly: trade: i. e. if a merchant entrust money to an agent (broker) for some investment, and the broker suffer a loss in the place to which he goes, he shall make good the capital to the merchant. (#102) Range of occupations mentioned in legal code a. If any one strike the body of a man higher in rank than he, he shall receive sixty blows with an ox-whip in public: 203. If a free-born man strike the body of another free- born man or equal ranks, he shall pay one gold mina: 204, 205, different payments. Vi: aren"t that cared for: doesn"t really have rights, must do it right. Importance of written documentation: 104, 105, 122, 123.
