If a man strikes a free-born woman so that she loses her unborn child, he shall pay ten shekels for her loss.
Babylonian king, code of laws
From the Code of Hammurabi (Law #209)
c. 1754 BCE
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"If a barber, without the knowledge of his master, cut the sign of a slave on a slave not to be sold, the hands of this barber shall be cut off."
Humorous"I was granted my rule by the gods 'to prevent the strong from oppressing the weak'."
Controversial"Until the child married, the father had legal rights to use children for labor for himself or his debtors. Fathers could even choose to sell their children off."
Controversial"If any one strike the body of a man higher in rank than he, he shall receive sixty blows with an ox-whip in public."
Humorous"If a man's wife is caught lying with another man, they shall bind them and throw them into the water."
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