Hammurabi's+Code+of+Law

= Place the number of the law, your explanation, and your connection here. = = Do not delete anything! Try to place the numbers in order. =

Hentz -

Daemion, and Eric: 61.If the gardener has not completed the planting of the feild, leaving one pert unused, this shall be assigned to him as his.

63. If he transforms waste land into arable feilds and return it to its owner, the latter shall pay him for one year ten gur for ten gan. You did not make a connection. Check your spelling.

Stephen- Law 8: If any one steal cattle or sheep, or an ass, or a pig or a goat if it belong to a god or to the court, the thief shall pay thirtyfold therefore; if they belonged to a freed man of the king he shall pay tenfold; if the thief has nothing with which to pay he shall be put to death. You did not relate to today. What is the connection? Amy and Shekib:

Law 13: There was no 13th law because it was concidered an unlucky number. We find this intresting because to this day, we also find 13 as an unlucky number. An example of this is Friday the 13th.

Dear Mrs. Hentz,

I don't know where our 2nd law is. Shekib said that he saved it. I will type it again though.

Amy

Law 17: If anyone finds a runnaway slave, and brings them back to their owner, they would be payed 2 shekels of silver. This is like wanted signs for pets or for criminals. If you find the pet or criminal, the owner will give you a reward.

This is an interesting law. -Fine connection. Where's your second law?

Rohan, Jack, and Robbie- Law 210: If anyone hits the body of a man in a higher rank than he is, he will get 60 blows with an ox whip in public. Connection: To the law of 2011, if you hit anyone severely you will get punished.

Law 239: If a man hires a sailor, he has to pay him 6 Gur of corn each year that he works for him. Connection: To the law of 2011, If you take anyone in for service to a company or any organization you have to pay him for his or her services unless he or she volunteers. I like how you qualified your connection with the volunteer idea. -Fine job

Law 121: If you stored something at someone's house, you would have to pay money per each year you store it there. Connection: In our age we have storage houses/place where it cost to store it there, depending on how long you store it there. Done by Hetvi Patel.

Law 123: If something is taken or stored at someone's house and there is no documental proof/witness that the item is yours, then the product is not yours. Connection: If you buy or give someone something, such as a car, and there is no documents that shows that you bought it, then the item or product isn't yours. Done by Philip Adams.

Dwayne(: and Natalie(= - Law 193: If a son wants to leave his adopted mother and father to go to his real father's house, his will lose his eye. Connection: In 2011, if you leave the parents that adopted to you and go to your birth parents, you will be retured to the parents that adopted you because they have your rights.

Law 199: If someone puts out the eye, or breaks the bone of a slave, he is to pay half of the slave's value. Connection: Today, if you injure someone, and a hospital is involved, you have to pay the medical bill.

Sam and Emily-

Law 210. If a man strikes a woman and she dies, then the mans daughter would be killed. Connection- If a man hits a woman and she dies, then the man will be put in jail and punished.

Law 218. If a doctor or surgeon starts an operation and uses the operating knife and kills or opens a tumor with the knife and cuts the eye out of the patient, then the surgeon or doctor will have his or her hands cut off. Connection- If a surgeon would injure or kill a patient during a surgery or operation, then that doctor would be sued and fined with the payment.

Jessica and Anjali -

Law 257: If anyone hires a field laborer, he must pay him 8 gur of corn per year. Connection: If somes hires someone, tthey have to pay them in the right amount.

Law 259: If anyone steals a waterwheel, you must pay 5 shekels. Connection: If someone steals something, they will have to pay a fine.

Stephen