Justice was important for people who lived in 4000 years ago. King Hammurabi was the king of Babylon around 4000 years ago. Justice was really important to the king, so King Hammurabi created 282 laws of fairness. Was Hammurabi's code of law fare to all people? Many people think Hammurabi’s Code of law is unjust based on the evidence from the Personal Injury law, the Property law and Family law.
The first reason that Hammurabi’s Code of law is unjust is the Personal Injury Law. In document E, law number 218 stated that if a surgeon operated with a bronze lancet on a free man for a serious injury and the man dies, his hands will be cut off. Also in law numbers 209 and 213 they stated that a if a man has struck a free women and the fruit of her womb is lost he pays 10 shekels of silver but if the man hit’s a slave women and she loses her froot of the womb the man only has to pay 2 shekels of silver. It might seem if the personal injury laws are absolutely just but they are really not because in law 218 the surgeon hands are cut of if he fails to save the man and in laws 213 and 209 the free women gets more shekels of silver then the slave women and also if the man hits the women and the fruit of her womb in not lost the man
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Document D and law number 21 stated If a man has broken through a wall to rob a house he shall be put to death and pierce him or hanged in the whole of the wall. Also law number 48 stated If a man borrowed money and a storm flood has destroyed all his crops he does not have to pay the creditor that year. Many people think that the property law in hammurabi’s code is fair but this shows that they really not that just because if the robber has broken the wall he we will be put to death but now in the current day they are put into jail for doing this, and for law number 48 this is not fair to creditors because they are going to lose money for giving them the