The Law Code of Hammurabi The law code of Hammurabi was a very severe and irrational law that dealt with illegal and public matters and basically contained the “eye or an eye” theory. The law code tells us a great deal about the Mesopotamian society in the time of Hammurabi. Characteristics include, social relations, property rights, and marriage. Social relations plays a big role in the law code of Hammurabi, there’s a different punishment for different ranks of people. The richer you are the less of a punishment you will receive. For an example in Law code 198 states that “if he puts out the eye of a freed man, or break the bone of a freed man, he shall pay one gold mina”. But if the man is a slave he would only have to pay one-half of