Early Ancient Near Eastern Law A History of Its Beginnings The Early Dynastic and Sargonic Periods 2nd Edition by Claus Wilcke 1575061325 9781575061320

0. Late 4th and early 3rd millennia
0.1 Earliest written records relating to matters legal
0.1.1 High office
0.1.2 Area controlled and relationship between authorities and commoners on different levels
1. Sources of law
1.1 Law codes and edicts
1.2 Administrative orders and appeals to higher authority
1.3 Private legal documents
1.4 Scholastic documents
1.5 Non-legal sources
2. Constitutional and administrative law
2.1 Organs of government
2.1.1 The king
2.1.1.1 The king as Suzerain
2.1.1.2 Early political theory on kingship
2.1.2 The legislature
2.1.3 The Administration
2.1.3.1 Central administration
2.1.3.2 Provincial and “city state” administration
2.1.3.3 Local government
2.1.3.4 Taxes, public service, and corvée
2.1.4 The courts
2.1.4.1 Judges
2.1.4.1.1 The king as judge
2.1.4.1.2 Royal judges
2.1.4.1.3 Officials in judicial function
2.1.4.2 The Commissioner
2.1.4.3 Other officials
3. Litigation
3.1 Terminology
3.2 The parties
3.3 Procedure
3.4 Self-help
3.5 Settlement out of court
4. Personal status
4.1 Citizenship
4.2 Class
4.3 Gender and age
4.4 Slavery
4.4.1 Terminology
4.4.2 Status
4.4.3 Creation
4.4.4 Termination
5. Family
5.1 Marriage
5.1.1 Conditions
5.1.2 Terminology
5.1.3 Formation
5.1.3.1 Marriage contract
5.1.3.2 Costs
5.1.4 Marital property
5.1.4.1 The Ušumgal Stele
5.1.4.2 The Blau Monuments
5.1.4.3 Gifts to the wife: dowry and/or marital gifts
5.1.4.4 Gifts to the groom
5.1.5 Dissolution of Marriage
6. Property and inheritance
6.1 Tenure
6.2 Inheritance
6.2.1 ED I to Fára period
6.2.2 Fára and Old Sumerian periods
6.2.3 Sargonic period
7. Treaty
7.1 Indirect Attestation
7.2 The treaty of E’anatum of Lagaš with Eanakale of Umma
7.3 The Treaty of Narám-Su’en of Agade with an Elamite Ruler
8. Contract
8.0 Introduction
8.1 Sale
8.1.1 Terminology
8.1.2 ED I period
8.1.3 Fára period
8.1.3.1 “Fára texts”
8.1.3.2 Roughly contemporaneous texts
8.1.4 Between the Fára Period and Ur-Nanše.k of Lagaš
8.1.4.1 Isin
8.1.4.2 Adab and Nippur
8.1.5 O(ld) S(umerian) and Sargonic periods
8.1.5.1 Girsu
8.1.5.1.1 The Lú-pà.d Statue and a field purchase by (prince) E’anatum
8.1.5.1.2 Field and house purchases from the time of Enanatum to the end of the OS period
8.1.5.1.3 OS Purchases of movable property
8.1.5.1.4 Sargonic Purchases of movable property
8.1.5.1.5 A Sargonic purchase of a house, perhaps from Girsu
8.1.5.2 Central Babylonia
8.1.5.2.1 OS purchases of landed property
8.1.5.2.2 OS purchases of movable property
8.1.5.2.3 Sargonic purchases of landed property
8.1.5.2.4 Sargonic purchases of movable property
8.1.5.3 Northern Babylonia and Diyala Region
8.1.5.3.1 Purchases of landed property, a) fields
8.1.5.3.2 Purchases of landed property, b) houses
8.1.5.3.3 Purchases of movable property
8.2 Exchange
8.3 Loan
8.4 Pledge
8.5 Suretyship
8.6 Hire
8.7 Oath
9. Delict and crime
Indices
1. Terms
2. Names
3. Words
4. Sources quoted
Abbreviations
Bibliography