CLJ 355 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Eye For An Eye, Code Of Hammurabi, Weregild
31 Aug 2016
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Clj 355 lecture 1 early history (2000 b. c. to a. d. 1800) Act designed to repay in kind, or to return like for like. Tribal customs exchange of property: blood feud. An often prolonged series of retaliatory, vengeful, or hostile acts or exchange of such acts: vendetta. Fines and punishment: tribal leaders, elders, and later kings play roles in fines and punishment, requires public action . Early codes: babylonian and sumerian codes, lex talionis (eye for an eye), based on sumerian codes (1860 b. c. ) 500 years before book of covenant (1250 b. c. ) Concept of public good more important than individual injury or vengeance: roman codes. Roman emperor justinian wrote his code of laws : creates the scales of justice. The middle ages: vast changes in social structures and growing influence of the church in everyday life, sinner had to repay two debts. One to society and one to god: concept of free will.
