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.
Babylonian king, code of laws
Principles derived from family laws in the Code of Hammurabi
c. 1754 BC
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"If a man has harbored a runaway slave, male or female, in his house and has not brought him forth at the summons of the public crier, the owner of the house shall be put to death."
Controversial"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."
Humorous"If a woman neglected and left her husband, she might be cast into the water; if a husband neglected his wife, his only punishment was that she could leave him."
Controversial"Incest was punishable by burning, adulterous murder by impaling."
Controversial"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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