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The Code of Hammurabi

Law

1780 BC-12-01 00:00:00 The Code consists of 282 laws, with scaled punishments, adjusting “an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth” (lex talionis)[1] as graded depending on social status, of slave versus free[…]

Uah’s Will – World’s oldest will.

Law

1797 BC-12-01 00:00:00 “The testament of Uah, composed of two leaves of papyrus with hieratic text in red and black ink. Recto: text in three divisions, recording two deeds of conveyance, names of witnesses at[…]

The Will of Mery – Egypt

Law

1818 BC-12-01 00:00:00 Legal documents from the large late Middle Kingdom town at Lahun (about 1800 BC): the will of Mery 73001

The Code of Ur-Nammu

Law

2100 BC-12-01 00:00:00 The Code of Ur-Nammu is the oldest known law code surviving today. It is from Mesopotamia and is written on tablets, in the Sumerian language c. 2100–2050 BC 69000

Kang Goa – Chinese Written Laws

Law

1027 BC-12-01 00:00:00 The earliest known Chinese legal document was a set of instructions by King Wu, circa 1,100 BC, known as Kang Goa. 87000

Solon’s Laws

Law

0530 BC-12-01 00:00:00 As civil war beckoned, Solon, the poet, was selected by Athenians to be the mediator of a dispute between the rich landowners of Athens, and their serfs. So great as the respect[…]

The Law code of Gortyn

Law

0450 BC-12-01 00:00:00 The code deals with such matters as disputed ownership of slaves, rape and adultery, the rights of a wife when divorced or a widow, the custody of children born after divorce, inheritance,[…]

Trial of Socrates

Law

0399 BC-12-01 00:00:00 Enter story info here 113001

Magna Carta is signed

Law

1215-12-01 00:00:00 Widely viewed as one of the most important legal documents in the history of democracy. 188000

The Laws of Aethelbert

Law

0600-03-05 13:30:28 “The first laws were probably set down between 600 and 615 in the kingdom of Kent on the southeast tip of England towards the end of the long reign of Aethelbert I. The[…]