Questions: Look specifically at laws 3, 46,195, 196, and 218.
1. Express your immediate response to the punishments listed.
2. Identify the beliefs and values that are reflected in these laws.
3. Give an example of a law that illustrates that the Code of Hammurabi did not distinguish
between an accidental or deliberate act.
4. Compare the values reflected in the Code of Hammurabi with our current values reflected in
Canadian laws. Explain the significance to the development of Canadian law.
The Laws:
3. If any one bring an accusation of any crime before the elders, and does not prove what he has
charged, he shall, if it be a capital offense charged, be put to death.
46. If he do not receive a fixed rental for his field, but lets it on half or third shares of the harvest,
the grain on the field shall be divided proportionately between the tiller and the owner.
195. If a son strike his father, his hands shall be hewn off.
196. If a man put out the eye of another man, his eye shall be put out.
218. If a physician make a large incision with the operating knife, and kill him, or open a tumor
with the operating knife, and cut out the eye, his hands shall be cut off.
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