If a man betroth a girl to his son, and his son have intercourse with her, but he (the father) afterward defile her, and be surprised, then he shall be bound and cast into the water (drowned).
Babylonian king, code of laws
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"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"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"If the 'finger is pointed' at a man's wife about another man, but she is not caught sleeping with the other man, she shall jump into the river for her husband."
Humorous"Incest was punishable by burning, adulterous murder by impaling."
Controversial"If the slave of a freed man strike the body of a freed man, his ear shall be cut off."
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