Ancient laws and modern problems : the balance between justice and a legal system / John Sassoon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sassoon, John.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law, Assyro-Babylonian.

Law, Sumerian.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 p.)

Edition:

Pbk. ed.

Place of Publication:

Bristol, UK ; Portland, OR : Intellect Books, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

John Sassoon's study of the written laws of four thousand years ago puts paid to the belief that the most ancient laws were merely arbitrary and tyrannical. On the contrary, the earliest legal systems honestly tried to get to the truth, do justice to individuals, and preserve civil order. They used the death penalty surprisingly seldom, and then more because society had been threatened than an individual killed. Some of the surviving law codes are originals, others near-contemporary copies. Together they preserve a partial but vivid picture of life in the early cites. This occupies more than h

Contents:

Preliminary Pages; CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; PHOTOGRAPHIC CREDITS; CHAPTER 1: EMERGENCE FROM PREHISTORY; CHAPTER 2: THE LAW CODES; CHAPTER 3: THE BURDEN OF PROOF; CHAPTER 4: THE CONCEPT OF PROPERTY; CHAPTER 5: THE FAMILY AS PROPERTY; CHAPTER 6: CHILDREN; CHAPTER 7: ADOPTION; CHAPTER 8: RAPE AND THE FAMILY; CHAPTER 9: WOMEN ACCORDING TO THE LAWS; CHAPTER 10: CRUELTY UNDER THE LAW; CHAPTER 11: THE HAMMURABI MYSTERY; CHAPTER 12: LAW IN THE ANCIENT WORLD; CHAPTER 13: ANCIENT LAWS AND MODERN PROBLEMS: THREE PROBLEM PRINCIPLES

CHAPTER 14: ANCIENT LAWS AND MODERN PROBLEMS: JUSTICE AND OTHER HAZARDSLIST OF REFERENCES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-212) and index.

ISBN:

9781841509175

9786610477036

9781280477034

1280477032

9781841509174

1841509175

OCLC:

476029079