Hammurabi’s Code Regarding Babylonian Government Regulating Family Life

 Hammurabi laws demonstrate societal challenges and formulated laws to solve communal challenges. Ancient Babylonians owned private properties and needed regulations to safeguard their properties. This way, people who possessed land were protected from unfair practices. Additionally, they also unveiled a hierarchical community therefore slaves were heavily punished than the upper class (Hammurabi, 2015). For instance, people could be penalized for committing crimes against family members and the caste system.  Through the framework of Hammurabi regulations, Babylonians who had properties could control their inheritance. This way, the laws could establish people who were liable for damages and ensured that their property was protected. In simpler terms, the community could exist harmoniously without any quarrels between various people in the society.

In terms of the daily management of the house, they stated that if the man or leader of the family leaves, and rents his land. If the newcomer rents it for more than three years, the landowner has no right to claim his property back as the current owner has to continue to use that piece of land for his good (Hammurabi, 2015). This one of the way of coming up with ways of keeping the family unit protected and operative due to the chance of coming up with concrete ways of persistent members of the community productive ad active. Also, this ensured the fair exchange of property between members of the community. When compared with other regulations, the Hammurabi regulations were sensitive to the plight of people and ensured that all family members lived in harmony without harming anyone. More the role of the regulations was to keep the citizens productive and loyal to Hammurabi.

 

 

References

Hammurabi, H. (2015). The Code of Hammurabi. Internet History Sourcebooks Project.