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Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters

by C. H. W. Johns

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  1. 1Dedication — Preface
  2. 2List of Abbreviations
  3. 3Sources and Bibliography
  4. 4Laws and Contracts
  5. 5II — The Code of Ḥammurabi
  6. 6III — Later Babylonian Law
  7. 7IV — The Social Organization of the Ancient Babylonian State
  8. 8V — Judges, Law-Courts, and Legal Processes
  9. 9VI — Legal Decisions
  10. 10VII — Public Rights
  11. 11VIII — Criminal Law
  12. 12IX — The Family Organization
  13. 13X — Courtship and Marriage
  14. 14XI — Divorce and Desertion
  15. 15XII — Rights of Widows
  16. 16XIII — Obligations and Rights of Children
  17. 17XIV — The Education and Early Life of Children
  18. 18XV — Adoption
  19. 19XVI — Rights of Inheritance
  20. 20XVII — Slavery
  21. 21XVIII — Land Tenure in Babylonia
  22. 22XIX — The Army, Corvée, and Other Claims for Personal Service
  23. 23XX — The Functions and Organization of the Temple
  24. 24XXI — Donations and Bequests
  25. 25XXII — Sales
  26. 26XXIII — Loans and Deposits
  27. 27XXIV — Pledges and Guarantees
  28. 28XXV — Wages of Hired Laborers
  29. 29XXVI — Lease of Property
  30. 30XXVII — The Laws of Trade
  31. 31XXVIII — Partnership and Power of Attorney
  32. 32XXIX — Accounts and Business Documents
  33. 33Babylonian and Assyrian Letters
  34. 34II — The Letters of Ḥammurabi
  35. 35III — The Letters of Samsu-Iluna and His Immediate Successors
  36. 36IV — Private Letters of the First Dynasty of Babylon
  37. 37V — Sennacherib’s Letters to His Father, Sargon
  38. 38VI — Letters From the Last Year of Shamash-Shum-Ukîn
  39. 39VII — Letters Regarding Affairs in Southern Babylonia
  40. 40Letters About Elam and Southern Babylonia
  41. 41IX — Miscellaneous Assyrian Letters
  42. 42X — Letters of the Second Babylonian Empire
  43. 43Appendix
  44. 44II — Chronology
  45. 45III — Weights and Measures
  46. 46IV — Bibliography of the Later Periods

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