Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-06-11

1.-THE house of that man has set her
face 10 go forth, ar.C has acted the
fool, and wasted his house, and i'm
lpoverished his house, they shall call
lher to account If the husband shall
lsay, put her away, he shall put her
away. She shall go her way; for
her divorce he shall give her nothing.
If the husband insisted, such a wife
could be drowned. There is, how
lever, kindlier tone in the law as
to sick wife. eff man has married
a wife, and sickness has seized her,
he may take a second wife, but the
lsick wife he shall not put away; in
the home she shall dwell; as long as
she lives he shall sustain her."
Space will not permit of our deal
ing with the laws of property, which
are most full and based on a most
equitable system, but one clause GER
tainly comes as surprise, when we
remember the antiquity of this code
It relates to the remarriage of
widow with young children, and might
be present-day law
If a widow whose children are
young has set her face to enter into
the house of another, without the
consent of the judge she shall not
lenter. When she enters into the
house of another, the judge shall in
quire regarding the house of her
former husband. The house of her
former husband to that woman and
her future husband he shall intrusu
and cause them to deposit deed.
They shall keep the house AMI rear
the little ones, but furniture for
money they shall not sell. A pur-
chaser that has bought any furniture
from the children of the widow shall
forfeit his money and return the
property to its owner.
. Here we have all the essential
, features of the modern ward in
chancery. The temple in Babylonia
, was the heart of the city. 1t was
there in the Surinam or judgment hall
that cases were tried, the court of the
temple was the modern chancery
) court, administering intestate or dis
puted estates. The treasury of the
temple was found to pay the ransom
, of captive official.
, We now come to the important
question of the relation of this code
. to the law of the covenant and the
> deuteronomy laws of the Hebrews.
, At once we find an astonishing agree
: ment. Both are laws based on the
: jus talionis. The Hebrew is en-
2 phatic on this exodus xxi: 23-24)
: So the Babylonian code (clauses
: 10000. A curious parallel is af-
Q forded by one clause on unintentional
: assault. ''If a man has struck another
! in quarrel and caused him wound,
e and that man shall swear I did not
o strike him knowingly he shall an
r swer for the doctor" compare Exodus
a xxi: 19), where the assailant is ito
@ pay for loss of time and cause him to
d be thoroughly healed" The Hebrews
e punished an assault on the father by
l. death, the Babylonians by loss of the
It hands The most striking example
|, and an almost undoubJed proof of con
V nection, is found in the clauses relat
4 ting to goring by an OK. If mar
y has savage OK in his charge and i
e has gored a man and caused him Il
@ die, there is no claim" So also The
S. Hebrew law Exodus xxi: 2S). But /
y the OK has pushed man, and by
e pushing him has made known hi
n vice, and he has not blunted his horn
e. has not shut up his OK, and the OK ha'
< gored a free man and caused him Il
re die he shall pay half mana o
g silver $50 shekels). The Hebrew
II penalty was death, OF redemption a
e fixed penalty, fixed by the Judge. /
It is curious to find doctors coming
IS under a penalty of jus talionis-aI
d unsuccessful operation was drasticalV
4 punished by cutting off the hands
s. We find also the barber surgeon
practicing chiefly for the branding
q Eof slaves.
n Many other close sfmilarities be
o tween the Baby lonian code and the
II Iy1ebrew might be traced, but
c sufficient have been noticed to show
4 1hat the law Of the covenant at least
q must have been Influenced by this
Q code. 1t was during the time Of the
q dynasty of Khammurabi and the sub
n sequent Kassite line-that is, for
some seven centuries-that Baby.
Ilonian influence was predominant in
. Palestine and Syria, and, although the
:, Rameside conquests and the Israelitc
: invasion obliterated much of il, such
: a code would not die out, and, indeed
y much of it exists to this day in the
: land laws of the Palestinian fellaheen
!, One last remark. This code shows
the wonderful organizing faculty OF
these ancient Arab rulers of Babylon,
: who laid the foundations on basis
= which endured, we might say, to all
time-for their work is with us unto
this day, and the words which occur
: lin the opening column are, after all,