Question

Hammurabi Code is an important legal document. Explain.

Answer 1

Nearly half of the Hammurabi code deals with issues like a contract, establishing, for example, the wages to be paid to a cart driver or a surgeon or anyone working as a labor.

Other provisions set the terms of a monetary transaction, establishing the liability of a builder for an establishment that collapses.

The Hammurabi code also addresses issues concerning household and family relationships and inheritance.

Only a single provision appears to impose obligations on an official.

This establishes that a jury who reaches an incorrect decision is to be fined and removed from the bench forever.

A few provisions address issues related to military service as well.