Pagente, Jessamie Jean T.

Jun 21,
2009
BSIT - IV B 8:00-
9:00am (MWF)

ITE ELECT 2
Business Enterprise and

The Codesof Hammurabi

The Ancient Babylonian's lived under the assumption that the gods
could do anything to humans that they wanted. The Hammurabi Code
of Law allowed swift, cut and dry justice. It was created to help keep
everyone in line as well as give a quick judgment in cases of dispute or
wrongful doing. Hammurabi took every common issue, wrote it down to
specific details and listed the consequences for each action

Of the several law codes surviving from the ancient Middle East, the
most famous after the Hebrew Torah is the Code of Hammurabi, sixth
king of the Amorite Dynasty of Old Babylon. It is best known from a
beautifully engraved diorite stela now in the Louvre Museum which
also depicts the king receiving the law from Shamash, the god of
justice. This copy was made long after Hammurabi's time, and it is
clear that his was a long-lasting contribution to Mesopotamian
civilization. It encodes many laws which had probably evolved over a
long period of time, but is interesting to the general reader because of
what it tells us about the attitudes and daily lives of the ancient
Babylonians. In the following selection, most of the long prologue
praising Hammurabi's power and wisdom is omitted

Liability
1. If a builder build a house for someone and complete it, he shall
give him a fee of two shekels in money for each sar of surface.
2. If it ruin goods, he shall make compensation for all that has been
ruined, and in as much as he did not construct properly this
house which he built and it fell, he shall re-erect the house from
his own means.
3. If it kills a slave of the owner, then he shall pay slave for slave to
the owner of the house.

As I relate it to business, these 3 codes, talks about liability. In

business, there are a little bit differences, as I observed to my parents
liability as a laborer of the TADECO; once they have file any a loan,
considered as a liable, it will monthly deducted to their salary until that
liability got paid.

Fields and Production

1. A woman, merchant or other property holder may sell a field,
garden or house. The purchaser shall conduct the business of the
field, garden or house which he has purchased.
2. If a man gives his orchard to a gardener to manage, the gardener
shall give to the owner of the orchard two-thirds of the produce
of the orchard, as long as he is in possession of the orchard; he
himself shall take one-third.
3. If the agent be careless and do not take a receipt for the money
which he has given to the merchant, the money not receipted for
shall not be placed to his account.

As I relate to these codes in Fields and Production. O the first number,

once that a certain business sells to a certain buyer, the buyer would
be the new owner and operate the business he has purchased and the
seller rendered all the business to a new buyer. The second number, in
business, everyone shall have a part of salary as he work to a property
which is been given to him although he is not the owner, but a
gardener.

Debt
1. If a man be in debt and sell his wife, son, or daughter, or bind
them over to service, for three years they shall work in the house
of their purchaser or master; in the fourth year they shall be
given their freedom.
2. If a man hold a debt of grain or money against a man, and he
seize him for debt, and the one seized die in the house of him
who seized him, that case has no penalty.

As I relate to these codes, once you have debt, it will be paid later. So
in the first number, it tells that a man sell either his wife or son to be a
worker to someone, once that debt has been paid, the either the wife
or the son shall be given a freedom as well as the second number.