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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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not go his way, the father that brought him up shall give to him from his
goods one-third of his sonship, and he shall go off; from field, garden,
and house he shall not give him.

section 192. If a son of a palace warder, or of a vowed woman, to the
father that brought him up, and the mother that brought him up, has said
'thou art not my father, thou art not my mother,' one shall cut out his
tongue.

section 193. If a son of a palace warder, or of a vowed woman, has known
his father's house, and has hated the father that brought him up or the
mother that brought him up, and has gone off to the house of his father,
one shall tear out his eye.

section 194. If a man has given his son to a wet nurse, that son has
died in the hand of the wet nurse, the wet nurse without consent of his
father and his mother has procured another child, one shall put her to
account, and because, without consent of his father and his mother, she
has procured another child, one shall cut off her breasts.

section 195. If a man has struck his father, his hands one shall cut
off.

section 196. If a man has caused the loss of a gentleman's eye, his eye
one shall cause to be lost.

section 197. If he has shattered a gentleman's limb, one shall shatter
his limb.

section 198. If he has caused a poor man to lose his eye or shattered a
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