Letter sent by the high-priest Lu ' enna to the king of Lagash ( maybe Urukagina ), informing him of his son's death in combat, c. 2400 BC, found in Girsu | Telloh ( ancient Girsu )

Excavations in modern-day Iraq by Ernest de Sarzec in 1877 found evidence of the earliest known code of justice, issued by the Sumerian king Urukagina of Lagash ca 2300 BC.

* Urukagina – Sumerian king and creator of what is sometimes cited as the first example of a legal code in recorded history.

Mesopotamia, as shown by successive law codes, those of Urukagina, Lipit Ishtar and Hammurabi, across its history became more and more a patriarchal society, one in which the men were far more powerful than the women.

The codes of Urukagina and Lipit Ishtar have been found.

Urukagina, the king of the Sumerian city-state Lagash, established the first laws that forbade compelling the sale of property .< ref > Samuel Noah Kramer.

According to inscriptions describing the reforms of the Sumerian king Urukagina of Lagash ( ca.

* In the reign of Urukagina of Lagash, " Dyandry, the marriage of one woman to two men, is abolished.

The last of these, Urukagina, was known for his judicial, social, and economic reforms, and his may well be the first legal code known to have existed.

Urukagina ( ca.

Urukagina, the king of Lagash, established the first known legal code to protect citizens from the rich and powerful.

Known as a great reformer, Urukagina established laws that forbade compelling the sale of property and required the charges against the accused to be stated before any man accused of a crime could be punished.

Like Urukagina, most ancient freedoms focused on negative liberty, protecting the less fortunate from harassment or imposition.

Ur's dominance over the Neo-Sumerian Empire was consolidated with the famous Code of Ur-Nammu, probably the first such law-code for Mesopotamia since that of Urukagina of Lagash centuries earlier.

He began his career as énsi of Umma, from where he conquered several of the Sumerian city-states — including Kish, where he overthrew Ur-Zababa ; Lagash, where he overthrew Urukagina ; Ur, Nippur, and Larsa ; as well as Uruk, where he established his new capital.

* Chronologisches und Soziales aus der Zeit Lugalanda ’ s und Urukagina ’ s, Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und verwandte Gebiete, 25 ( 1911 ), 275-280.

2350 BC-Reforms of Urukagina of Lagash-not extant, but " known " through other sources.

* Urukagina, king of Lagash, creates the first known judicial code ( 24th century BC )

The early inscriptions of Urukagina in fact go so far as to suggest that the divine pair, Enki and Ninki, were the progenators of seven pairs of gods, including Enki as god of Eridu, Enlil of Nippur, and Su ' en ( or Sin ) of Ur, and were themselves the children of An ( sky, heaven ) and Ki ( earth ).

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