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Hammurabi's Laws
Beginning of Paper
In effort to build a strong and unified empire, Hammurabi
constructed a set of 300 laws to govern the everyday lives of his people.
Government has always been an important part of any civilization and should
contain laws and guide lines. Hammurabi's set of laws outlines the status
of .... Middle of Paper .... in a fine. Law number six is if a man has stolen
goods, he shall be put to death, and if he gave any stolen goods to people,
they shall be put to death too. Today a robber would usually get a fine or
jail time, and same for the person who received the goods, but wouldn't
receive a death sentence in most cases. You can see how str ict they were
on robbery back then, and probably not many robberies occurred. There were
also laws that dealt with stealing ox, sheep, ass, pig, or ship that,
unlike the previous laws, wasn't punishable by death but ....
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