The Laws of Hammurabi, King of Babylonia

This book is a compilation of the Code of Hammurabi, the oldest collection of public laws that has yet been discovered. It is a reflection of the social conditions existing in Babylonia 4,000 years ago. The jurist of to-day will recognize in it most of the fundamental principles on which our social legislation is based. The code was given to us by the archaeological work of the distinguished explorer M. de Morgan who obtained the stele of Hammurabi upon which the code was engraved. This book is as translated by Dr. H. Otto Sommer.