List of ancient legal codes
The legal code was a common feature of the legal systems of the ancient Middle East. The Sumerian Code of Ur-Nammu (c. 2100-2050 BC), then the Babylonian Code of Hammurabi (c. 1760 BC), are amongst the earliest originating in the Fertile Crescent. In the Roman empire, a number of codifications were developed, such as the Twelve Tables of Roman law (first compiled in 450 BC) and the Corpus Juris Civilis of Justinian, also known as the Justinian Code (429 - 534 CE). In ancient China, the first comprehensive criminal code was the Tang Code, created in 624 CE in the Tang Dynasty.
The following is a list of ancient legal codes in chronological order:
- Code of Urukagina (2,380-2,360 BC)
- Cuneiform law (2,350-1,400 BC)
- Code of Ur-Nammu, king of Ur (c. 2050 BC)
- Laws of Eshnunna (c. 1930 BC)[1]
- Codex of Lipit-Ishtar of Isin (c. 1870 BC)[2]
- Babylonian laws / Code of Hammurabi (c. 1790 BC)
- Hittite laws (c. 1650–1100 BC)
- Code of the Nesilim (c. 1650-1500 BC)
- Law of Moses / Torah (10th-6th century BC)
- Assyrian laws / Code of the Assura (c. 1075 BC)
- Draconian constitution (7th century BC)
- Gortyn code (5th century BC)
- Twelve Tables of Roman Law (451 BC)
- Edicts of Ashoka of Buddhist Law (269-236 BC)
- Law of Manu (c. 200 BC)
- Corpus Juris Civilis (Justinian code) (529 to 534 AD)
- Sharia or Islamic Law (c. 570)
- Tang Code (624 to 637)
- Halakha (Jewish religious law, including biblical law and later talmudic and rabbinic law, as well as customs and traditions)
- Traditional Chinese law
- The Gentoo Code
- Brehon Law
See also
References
- ^ Code of Nesilim
- ^ Charles F. Horne, Ph.D. (1915). "The Code of Hammurabi : Introduction". Yale University. Archived from the original on September 8, 2007. Retrieved September 14, 2007.
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