Show A Among tiro Iho Important discoveries ot of times Is III that ot of a document containing a code of ianne In force toree In long before tho time or of Mo MoMes lies Mes It II Is uld eald to have been unearthed somewhere in III J Persia 11 by a exe x IJ ot cit scientists It Is III supposed ed to haVe hlo been brought to with i other trophies 8 Tho document iran hall a 11 picture ot of ICing who la is supposed to be tire the kIn Ott It ot of tire leader ot of the allies that cUll captured the cities cille or of tilt the In tire the days ot of Abraham lie He a extending from the to The text ot of tat bun la Is now published to 10 nfl nn article In tho ho lade Indo It quite revere Legal cases were vere tried o a court of at judges ot at thu of at whom wn was n a The facts In tile fl learned through witnesses e 1111 written The care taken In Inthis this regard Is l evident from corn die tho i lag Ing It If has hall bought boughtor or received II art a lt sliver or got gal gotor ur or 1 n siavo or II a female slave or orn ora n a steer or n a sheep orlIn or an ass or 01 any el else c from a free turin or n a without witnesses or written ho he is 18 to 10 lie be treated all an a n thief nun strait be killed The 1110 death IJ WM the merit for tor n a number or of offenses nUll among others for tor arid nd for robbing n a or royal 10 possessions An Any ern who lell 1 a slave to 10 elca escape or un nfl o WitS ln ts tarnished punished by dentin death all as was nil an out om who tailed failed to attend to his duties lulI I himself but Intruded the these e to it 0 sub The death penalty penally was In eIther 11 by lire fire or or Impaling V The old maxim an eye eo cor ot on nn eye anti and 1 a for tor n a tooth loath was carrIed out jut literally In this wa Ia nn adopted ll or fun eon who raid to his and mother molher that the they riot iris hili parents should IDS ioe lilt hili hilior or her tongue Tire The code cod provides that If a mitro knock out nn an eye tiC or a 1 free Cree morn iris his own eye shall be forfeited If ho he break one of oC tire the rn m ot of 1 a iii hl own member shall hI be removed It If tire suffering party were n a ii P pa ment of at mone money could makl gOOl good tire wrong some was vas true ot of n a freed man iran On the other hand It If an lor a superIor lie ho was led with OCt fifty and if Ie he a shrove lila his ear ar was ent ort off It If to surgeon waft un an In performing In an operation lie ire was ras riot entitled to am an par pa It IC tire the died under the tho ot of tire Iho surgeon the hatter lust host hl iris hands Incase In Incase case the patient was It a tree free man It a 11 sIao loe died under his baud he must bur another In case cage a 11 builder matte marie a ot of a structure lie he was niso pun vun punished with lentil lie Ho who falsely claimed that another was Indebted to trim him must pay ot of a I Freemen n lighting were nvere fined on one inina Theft ot of an animal was WIlS punishable b by 1 it line of at thirty times Its value A closer stud study ot of tine remarkable law laI code would probably disclose how much superior was tire the Mosaic much more notwithstanding its lis as to tire the In laws vs of at later Inter ages lor mankind I is I 1 In cI civilization 11 lon standing the temporary that history seems to 10 record |