Law Code

Its central element is a detailed law-code by which the Children of Israel are to live in the Promised Land. ❋ Jonathan Aquino (2009)

Tukulti-Ninurta also promulgated the Middle Assyrian law-code, a continuation of the Sumerian and Babylonian legal tradition and built a new capital, Kar-Tukulti-Ninurta (Tulul el-Aqir), across the Tigris from Ashur. ❋ Unknown (2001)

Some of the rules for the life of a householder will show in brief the moral excellence and theoretical uncertainty of Manu's law-code. ❋ Edward Washburn Hopkins (1894)

For instance, even as late a jurist as he that wrote the law-code of 'Vishnu' thus (chap. ii.) parcels out the duties and occupations of the four castes: The duty of a priest is to teach the Veda, his means of livelihood is to sacrifice for others and to receive aims; the duty of the warrior is to fight, his means of livelihood is to receive taxes for protecting the other castes; the duty of the V [= a] içya is to tend cattle, his means of livelihood 1s gain from flocks, farm, trade, or money-lending. ❋ Edward Washburn Hopkins (1894)

But to be educated by the law-book (as a law-collection / didactic text) is quite different from the modern notion of judges implementing pre-defined penalties for pre-defined categories of cases (as a law-code / legislative text). "of predefined penalties for predefined offenses. ❋ Unknown (2008)