Oldest Code of Law?
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Ur-Nammu is the oldest written law. It is still around (in a museum). Its historical significance is that it is the oldest written code of law.
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also you can look Hammurabi's , Code of Hammurabi here , three different translation is in the wikisource link on the wikipedia article.
- If a man bring an accusation against a man, and charge him with a (capital) crime, but cannot prove it, he, the accuser, shall be put to death.
- If a man charge a man with sorcery, and cannot prove it, he who is charged with sorcery shall go to the river, into the river he shall throw himself and if the river overcome him, his accuser shall take to himself his house (estate). If the river show that man to be innocent and he come forth unharmed, he who charged him with sorcery shall be put to death. He who threw himself into the river shall take to himself the house of his accuser.
- If a man, in a case (pending judgment), bear false (threatening) witness, or do not establish the testimony that he has given, if that case be a case involving life, that man shall be put to death.
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