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Ancient laws and modern problems : the balance between justice and a legal system / John Sassoon

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Sassoon, John. Auteur

Edited by Intellect Books. Bristol, UK, Portland, OR - 2005

"The earliest legal systems honestly tried to get to the truth, do justice to individuals, and preserve civil order. They used the death penalty surprisingly seldom, and then more because society had been threatened than an individual killed." "Some of the surviving law codes are originals, others near-contemporary copies. Together they preserve a partial but vivid picture of life in the early cities. This occupies more than half the book." "Comparison of ancient with modern principles occupies the remainder and is bound to be controversial; but it is important as well as fascinating. The first act of writing laws diminished the discretion of the judges and foretold a limit on individual justice. Some political principles such as uniformity of treatment or individual freedom have, when carried to extremes, produced crises in modern legal systems world wide."--Jacket

Emergence from prehistory. The law codes. The burden of proof. The concept of property. The family as property. Children. Adoption. Rape and the family. Women according to the laws. Cruelty under the law. The Hammurabi mystery. Law in the ancient world. Ancient laws and modern problems: three problem principles. Ancient laws and modern problems: justice and other hazards.

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