law codes
... Law codes are a must for any society that needs to keep the peace among its citizens. ... Two such law codes are those of Hammurabi and the Yuan Dynasty. ... As societies became more civilized, law codes remained barbaric. ... Status differences appear in the law codes as well as gender differences. ... Many things are reflected through Hammurabi‘s Law Code and the Yuan Law Code. The writer’s values, legal equality or lack thereof, consumer protections, the differences between pre-meditated and involuntary manslaughter and more, are all apparent within the law codes. ... The status of individuals, by law, was dictated by where their ancestors had come from. ... ”# Both the Yuan Law Code as well as Hammurabi’s Law Code reflect the societies different social classes as well as the gender differences. Hammurabi’s Law Code was inscribed on a big piece of black basalt. ... ” # Under Hammurabi’s law code, penalties depended on the class of the offender and the most severe punishments were reserved for the lower classes.# Law 198 states: “If he destroy the eye of a common man or break a bone of a common man, he shall pay one mana of silver.”# In this law the “ eye for an eye” assessment doesn’t apply. ... Women are treated as second citizens and they are not treated as equals in the Hammurabi’s law code. ... # Clearly men received better treatment from the law code than women did. In the Yuan Law Code, men also were treated differently than women and there were also different punishments depending on the status of the offender. As well as being bias the Yuan Code is also barbaric like Hammurabi’s Law Code. The Yuan Law Code contains many laws concerning killing and fighting. ... In another example if a father kills his son and happens to kill his daughter in law he will receive only 77 blows and her dowry would have been returned to her parents. ... Both law codes present seemingly inhuman punishments. The Law Code of Hammurabi and the Yuan Law Code are very similar even though there is a difference of four thousand years between the two.