Hammurabi — "If a barber, without the knowledge of the owner of a slave, cuts off the slave's…"

"If a tavern-keeper (feminine) does not accept corn according to gross weight in payment of drink, but takes money, and the price of the drink is less than that of the corn, she shall be convicted and …"

"If a slave says to the master, 'you are not my master,' the master shall cut off the slave's ear."

"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."

"I was granted my rule by the gods 'to prevent the strong from oppressing the weak'."

"If a man destroy the eye of another man, they shall destroy his eye."