THE FIRST LAWS
Rules and laws – and the conventions or customs from which they are descended – have been a part of human life ever since man began to live in large and settled group. The earliest known legal text was written by Ur-nammu, a king of the Mesopotanian city of Ur, in about 2100 BC. It dealt largely with compensation for bodily injuries, and with the penalties for witchcraft and runaway slaves.
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