Hammurabi — "If a man betroth a girl to his son, and his son have intercourse with her, but h…"

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).
Hammurabi — Hammurabi Ancient · Babylonian king, code of laws

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Code of Hammurabi, Law 155.

Date: c. 1754 BCE

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