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  • ...nt feature of Ur III is its establishment of one of the earliest known law-codes, the ''[[Code of Ur-Nammu]]''. It is quite similar to the famous [[Code of ...appealed and eventually overthrown by the provincial governor. Sometimes legal disputes were publicly aired with witnesses present at a place like the tow
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  • ...nt feature of Ur III is its establishment of one of the earliest known law-codes, the ''[[Code of Ur-Nammu]]''. It is quite similar to the famous [[Code of ...appealed and eventually overthrown by the provincial governor. Sometimes legal disputes were publicly aired with witnesses present at a place like the tow
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  • ...nt feature of Ur III is its establishment of one of the earliest known law-codes, the ''[[Code of Ur-Nammu]]''. It is quite similar to the famous [[Code of ...appealed and eventually overthrown by the provincial governor. Sometimes legal disputes were publicly aired with witnesses present at a place like the tow
    14 KB (2,081 words) - 06:08, 9 May 2015
  • Mesopotamia, as shown by successive law codes, those of [[Urukagina]], [[Lipit Ishtar]] and [[Hammurabi]], across its his ...t law codes, drawn from legal precedence and decisions made by Kings. The codes of [[Urukagina]] and [[Lipit Ishtar]] have been found. The most renowned o
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  • ...or. It proscribed specific penalties for each crime and is among the first codes to establish the [[presumption of innocence]]. Although its penalties are e ...ess, the Code of Hammurabi shows marked differences from these earlier law codes and ultimately proved more influential.<ref name="Breasted2003"/><ref name=
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