Debt:
abatement for damages by storm, deluge, or drought, 48, 48
creditor to have no call for year's interest, 48, 48
debtor's obligation not lessened, 49, 52
laws of Mancipium, 52, 115-117, 53, 118, 119
question of ante-nuptial, 56, 151
property held as security for, 263. See Pledges
Debtor:
how secured against illegal process, 52, 113;
illegal distraint, 52, 114
may pay in kind, 51, Z
Debts:
of husband and wife, mutual obligations, 56, 152
question of pre-nuptial, 56, 151
Decision of judge in lawsuit, 91, 92
Decisions, legal, considered, 100 sq.
Dedication:
of land to temple, 223, 224;
to secure divine favor, 223, 224
Deed. See Bond:
of gift, with bond, 72, E
settlement on wife, 132
with the gifts, 222 sq.
Defamation of comrade, 57, 161
Deferred payment of debt, 48, 48
Degradation from judgeship, 44, 5
Deification of river Euphrates, 44, 2
the sacred river, 44, 2
Deposit:
how recoverable, 53, 123
from minor or slave, how made legal, 44, 7
made in temple for safety and banking, 211 sq.
Desertion:
by wife, 54, 133
by husband, who returned to claim the property, 102, 144
involuntary, of wife by husband, 54, 133, 143
of adoptive parents, 61, 193
of city and wife, 54, 136
Detention of slave, penalty death, 46, 19
Diary of a journey, 380
Dike:
burst and meadow was flooded, 49, 53
to be cared for, 199
Disinheritance:
by adoptive parents, 157, 160, 167;
done before the judge, 58, 168, 157, 160
by due legal process, 58, 168, 149, 167
carried out before a judge, 167
of adopted child, not complete, 167
of adoptive parents, 61, 192, 193, 150, 159
of mother by her son, 149
of son by his father, 42, III, 149, 167
of son by his mother, 42, IV, 149, 150
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of son laid before a judge for inquiry, 58, 168, 167
of son-in-law, 57, 159
repudiation and reduction to the condition of slave, 166, 39
Distraint. See Mancipium:
death of person in, 52, 115, 116
fine for illegal, one-third mina of silver, 52, 114;
of working ox, fine one-third mina of silver, 64, 241
illegal on warehoused goods, 53, 120
security against illegal, 52, 114
District or city:
for ransom of official, 47, 32
liable for highway robbery, 46, 23
Divorce:
as regulated by the Code, 141
custody of the children to the wife, 141
easiest form of, 55, 138, 143
easy for the man, difficult for the woman, 141
grounds of, 141
laws of, 54, 137, 55, 138
legal ceremony, 134
man must give wife or concubine a maintenance, 141
might marry again, 141
of concubine, 54, 137;
of votary, 54, 137
price of divorce, 55, 139, 142
protection of the wife's rights, 140, 141
retains right to her marriage-portion, 141
shares with her children in deceased husband's estate, 141
wife can only divorce by lawsuit, 143
wife takes her bride-price and marriage-portion, 55, 188, 141;
if no bride-price, one mina of silver, 55, 139, 141;
from plebeian one-third mina, 55, 140
Doctor. See Surgeon, Veterinary:
fees for curing, 63, 215-221
paid by assailant, 62, 206
penalties, 63, 218-220
privileges and responsibilities, 63, 215-221
Donations and bequests:
as alienation of property, 218 sq.
in Assyria, 222
in second Babylonian Empire, 222
to temple a free gift, 223
to the chief priest of the temple, 223
Dowry. See Marriage-portion
Drowning. See Death Penalty:
as a penalty, considered, 97, 117, 143
as penalty for selling drink too cheap, 52, 108
for desertion of husband, 54, 133
for repudiating her husband, 143
penalty for adultery, 54, 133
penalty for incest, 56, 155
penalty on undutiful and slanderous wife, 55, 143
Duplicate:
of court decision, 87
of tablet, 79
Ear cut off as penalty, 62, 205
Education in ancient Babylonia, 151-153
interpretation of signs on the monuments, 165
phrase-books, 151, 152, 153
schools, 152
slaves were apprenticed, 152
writing and use of word-phrases, 152
Elam, Elamites, troubles of, 360 sq.
Elamite contracts, 30
Elders as assessors to the judges, 80 sq.
Endowment of temples by kings, 195, 208 sq.
Entailed. See Family:
family property, 122, 184
land, 184
Equals, assault on, 62, 200, 203, 204
Esarhaddon, King of Assyria:
his long absences, 371
inquiries about oracles, 379
letter from, 360
sequence in his family, 366, 375, 376
son of Sennacherib, 108, 369
Estates, great, plans of, 249
Evicted:
purchaser reimbursed, 45, 9
tenant reimbursed, 50, Y
Exchange of benefice illegal, 48, 41
Expulsion of judge for altering judgment, 44, 5
Eye torn out, 61, 193
fee for cure of, ten shekels of silver, 63, 215
in diseased state, 63, 215
knocked out by assailant, 62, 196
loss of eye assessed at half value of slave, 63, 220
operated on with bronze lancet, 63, 215