One of the greatest of ancient codes, carved on a diorite column, in 3,600 lines of cuneiform; it was found (1902) at Susa and is now at Paris.

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2500 BC
Ancient Babylonia - The Code of Hammurapi
Translated by L. W. King

Builder Code:
#229 If a builder build a house for some one, and does not construct it properly, and the house which he built fall in and kill its owner, then that builder shall be put to death.
#232. If it ruin goods, he shall make compensation for all that has been ruined..

Apprentice Code:
#282. If a slave say to his master: "You are not my master," if they convict him his master shall cut off his ear.

Inspector Code:
#5. If a judge try a case, reach a decision, and present his judgment in writing; if later error shall appear in his decision, and it be through his own fault, then he shall pay twelve times the fine set by him in the case, and he shall be publicly removed from the judge's bench, and never again shall he sit there to render judgement.

Link to all 282 codes below:
http://www.bible-history.com/babylonia/BabyloniaCode_of_Hammurapi.htm

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