The document summarizes key aspects of the Code of Hammurabi, an ancient set of laws from Babylon. It discusses the basics of the Code such as what it is made of and where it is located. It also provides examples of some of the laws from the Code, many of which mandate harsh physical punishments like the cutting off of limbs or teeth for various offenses. Finally, it briefly compares the Code of Hammurabi to other important legal documents like the Ten Commandments and the US Constitution.

1. The Code of Hammurabi

2. What we will be looking at …
The Basics: What it is made of,
where it is located, etc.
The Code’s Historical Role on
Government

4. <<<Part of the Prologue…
Part of the Epilogue…>>>

8. Some interesting laws out of the Code of Hammurabi…
• "If a man takes a woman to wife, but has no intercourse with her, this
woman is no wife to him."
• "If during an unsuccessful operation a patient dies, the arm of the surgeon
must be cut off. "
• "If a human talks back to another human their lips shall be hewn off "
• "If a man knocks the teeth out of another man, his own teeth will be
knocked out. "
• "If a man puts out the eye of an equal, his eye shall be put out."
• "If a man's wife, who lives in his house, wishes to leave it, plunges into
debt, tries to ruin her house, neglects her husband, and is judicially
convicted: if her husband offer her release, she may go on her way, and he
gives her nothing as a gift of release. If her husband does not wish to
release her, and if he take another wife, she shall remain as servant in her
husband’s house”

9. The Code of Hammurabi vs. The Ten Commandments vs. The US Constitution