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Code and Hammurabi
The earliest and most famous example is Code of Hammurabi which set the different punishment and compensation according to the different class / group of victims and perpetrators.
The Code of Hammurabi is a well-preserved Babylonian law code, dating back to about 1772 BC.
In 1901, Egyptologist Gustave Jéquier, a member of an expedition headed by Jacques de Morgan, found the stele containing the Code of Hammurabi in what is now Khūzestān, Iran ( ancient Susa, Elam ), where it had been taken as plunder by the Elamite king Shutruk-Nahhunte in the 12th century BC.
The Code of Hammurabi is the longest surviving text from the Old Babylonian period.
Various copies of portions of the Code of Hammurabi have been found on baked clay tablets, some possibly older than the celebrated diorite stele now in the Louvre.
The Prologue of the Code of Hammurabi ( the first 305 inscribed squares on the stele ) is on such a tablet, also at the Louvre ( Inv # AO 10237 ).
Likewise, the Museum of the Ancient Orient, part of the Istanbul Archaeology Museums, also has a " Code of Hammurabi " clay tablet, dated to 1750 BC, in ( Room 5, Inv # Ni 2358 ).
* Code of Hammurabi translated by R. F.
* Code of Ur-Nammu – the oldest known tablet containing a law code surviving today, it predates the Code of Hammurabi by some 300 years
* The Code of Hammurabi Translated by L. W. King.
Similarly, the Covenant Code ( the law code in Exodus 20: 22-23: 33 ) has notable similarities in both content and structure with the Laws of Hammurabi.
The Code of Hammurabi, ( 1780 BCE ), dealt with the reciprocity of the Lex talionis, in ways, such by limiting retribution, as they did concepts of retribution ( literally " an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth ").
* Code of Hammurabi
Hammurabi is known for the set of laws called Hammurabi's Code, one of the first written codes of law in recorded history.
Hammurabi is best known for the promulgation of a new code of Babylonian law: the Code of Hammurabi.
One of the first written laws in the world, the Code of Hammurabi was inscribed on a stele and placed in a public place so that all could see it, although it is thought that few were literate.
* A Closer Look at the Code of Hammurabi ( Louvre museum )
The Babylonians developed a system which was recorded in the famous Code of Hammurabi, c. 1750 BC, and practised by early Mediterranean sailing merchants.
Exemption of the insane from full criminal punishment dates back to at least the Code of Hammurabi.
The Code of Hammurabi, discovered in 1901, displays Babylonian Laws prominently, so that no man could plead their ignorance.
The most renowned of these was that of Hammurabi, as mentioned above, who was postumously famous for his set of laws, the Code of Hammurabi ( created ca.

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First was the period of codification of existing law: the Code Napoleon in France and the peculiar codification that, in fact, resulted from Austin's restatement and ordering of the Common Law in England.
Under the 1939 Code this item was permitted to survive a tax-free reorganization in the Stanton Brewery case, but only over the dissent of Judge Learned Hand, who wrote the majority opinion in the Sansome case, a leading case requiring carryover of earnings and profits in a non-taxable reorganization.
However, the Federal Court held that since the State had accepted the provisions of the Wagner-Peyser Act into its own Code, and presumably therefore also the regulations, it was now a State matter.
The US ASCII 1968 Code Chart was structured with two columns of control characters, a column with special characters, a column with numbers, and four columns of letters
The American Standard Code for Information Interchange ( ASCII ) was developed under the auspices of a committee of the American Standards Association, called the X3 committee, by its X3. 2 ( later X3L2 ) subcommittee, and later by that subcommittee's X3. 2. 4 working group.
His British colleague Hugh McGregor Ross helped to popularize this work — according to Bemer, " so much so that the code that was to become ASCII was first called the Bemer-Ross Code in Europe ".
In Tonga, the Vava ' u Code ( 1839 ) was inspired by Methodist missionary teachings, and was a form of blue law.
During the Second World War, Bletchley Park was the site of the United Kingdom's main decryption establishment, the Government Code and Cypher School ( GC & CS ), where ciphers and codes of several Axis countries were decrypted, most importantly the ciphers generated by the German Enigma and Lorenz machines.
An example of this is the Telegraph Code which was used to shorten long telegraph messages which resulted from entering into commercial contracts using exchanges of Telegrams.
One of the first of these Germanic law codes to be written was the Visigothic Code of Euric ( 471 ).
These continental codes were all composed in Latin, whilst Anglo-Saxon was used for those of England, beginning with the Code of Ethelbert of Kent ( 602 ).
The Code was based on Roman-Byzantine law.
" In this way, the common law was eventually incorporated into the legal systems of every state except Louisiana ( which inherited a civil law system from its French colonizers before the Louisiana Purchase of 1803, adopting a code similar to but not directly based on the Napoleonic Code of 1804 ).
The only part of this codification process that was considered complete is known as the Field Code applying to civil procedure.
Contrary to popular belief, the Louisiana code does not directly derive from the Napoleonic Code, as the latter was enacted in 1804, one year after the Louisiana Purchase.
Under the aegis of the Cardinal Pietro Gasparri, the Commission for the Codification of Canon Law was completed under Benedict XV, who promulgated the Code, effective in 1918.
The work having been begun by Pius X, it was sometimes called the " Pio-Benedictine Code " but more often the 1917 Code.
In its preparation, centuries of material was examined, scrutinized for authenticity by leading experts, and harmonized as much as possible with opposing canons and even other codes, from the Codex of Justinian to the Napoleonic Code.
In this case the specific name marinus changes to marina in order to conform with the rules of gender agreement as set out by the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature changing the binomial name from Bufo marinus to Rhinella marina ; the binomial Rhinella marinus was subsequently introduced as a synonym through misspelling by Pramuk, Robertson, Sites, and Noonan ( 2008 ).
Code coverage was among the first methods invented for systematic software testing.
A similar declaration was issued with regard to Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo's conferring of episcopal ordination on four men-all of whom, by virtue of previous Independent Catholic consecrations, claimed already to be bishops-on 24 September 2006: the Holy See, as well as stating that, in accordance with Canon 1382 of the Code of Canon Law, all five men involved incurred automatic (" latae sententiae ") excommunication through their actions, declared that " the Church does not recognise and does not intend in the future to recognise these ordinations or any ordinations derived from them, and she holds that the canonical state of the four alleged bishops is the same as it was prior to the ordination.

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