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The Oldest Code of Laws in the World - The code of laws promulgated by Hammurabi, King of Babylon - B.C. 2285-2242 by Hammurabi
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money a maidservant who has borne him children, the money the merchant
paid him the owner of the maid shall pay, and he shall ransom his maid.

section 120. If a man has heaped up his corn in a heap in the house of a
man, and in the granary a disaster has taken place, or the owner of the
house has opened the granary and taken the corn, or has disputed as to
the total amount of the corn that was heaped up in his house, the owner
of the corn shall recount his corn before God, the owner of the house
shall make up and return the corn which he took and shall give to the
owner of the corn.

section 121. If a man has heaped up corn in the house of a man, he shall
give as the price of storage five _KA_ of corn _per GUR_ of corn _per
annum_.

section 122. If a man shall give silver, gold, or anything whatever, to
a man on deposit, all whatever he shall give he shall shew to witnesses
and fix bonds and shall give on deposit.

section 123. If without witness and bonds he has given on deposit, and
where he has deposited they keep disputing him, this case has no remedy.

section 124. If a man has given silver, gold, or anything whatever to a
man on deposit before witnesses and he has disputed with him, one shall
put that man to account, and whatever he has disputed he shall make up
and shall give.

section 125. If a man has given anything of his on deposit, and where he
gave it, either by housebreaking or by rebellion, something of his has
been lost, along with something of the owner of the house, the owner of
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