A scribe is a person who serves as a professional copyist, especially one who made copies of manuscripts before the invention of automatic printing.. The profession of the scribe, previously widespread across cultures, lost most of its prominence and status with the advent of the printing press.The work of scribes can involve copying manuscripts and other texts as well as …

Als Codex Hammurapi (auch in den Schreibweisen Kodex bzw.Hammurabi und Ḫammurapi) bezeichnet man eine babylonische Sammlung von Rechtssprüchen aus dem 18. Jahrhundert v. Chr. Sie gilt zugleich als eines der wichtigsten und bekanntesten literarischen Werke des antiken Mesopotamiens und als bedeutende Quelle keilschriftlich überlieferter Rechtsordnungen …

A marry-your-rapist law, marry-the-rapist law, or rape-marriage law is a rule of rape law in a jurisdiction under which a man who commits rape, sexual assault, statutory rape, abduction or other similar act is exonerated if he marries his female victim, or in some jurisdictions at least offers to marry her.The "marry-your-rapist" law is a legal way for the accused to avoid …

The Code of Rajah Kalantiaw was a supposed legal code in the epic history Maragtas that is said to have been written in 1433 by Datu Kalantiaw, ... Code of Hammurabi; Sa Aking Mga Kabata; Notes References. Agoncillo, Teodoro C. (1990) [first published 1960]. History of the Filipino People (8th ed.). Quezon City: Garotech Publishing. ...

Some kind of limitation on the trade in alcohol can be seen in the Code of Hammurabi (c. 1772 BCE) specifically banning the selling of beer for money. It could only be bartered for barley: "If a beer seller do not receive barley as the price for beer, but if she receive money or make the beer a measure smaller than the barley measure received, they shall throw her into the water."

A crescent shape (/ ˈ k r ɛ s ən t /, UK also / ˈ k r ɛ z ən t /) is a symbol or emblem used to represent the lunar phase in the first quarter (the "sickle moon"), or by extension a symbol representing the Moon itself.. In Hinduism, Lord Shiva is often shown wearing a crescent moon on his head symbolising that the lord is the master of time and is himself timeless.. It is used as …

A legal concept similar to Qisas is the principle of Eye for an eye first recorded in the Code of Hammurabi. The principle of retaliation in ancient societies meant that, the person who committed a crime or the tribe he belonged to would be punished in the same way as the crime committed. That is, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, an ear ...

Babylonia (/ ˌ b æ b ɪ ˈ l oʊ n i ə /; Akkadian: ????????????????????, māt Akkadī) was an ancient Akkadian-speaking state and cultural area based in central-southern Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq and parts of Syria).A small Amorite-ruled state emerged in 1894 BC, which contained the minor administrative town of Babylon. It was a small provincial town during the Akkadian Empire …

Code of Hammurabi Law 100 stipulated repayment of a loan by a debtor to a creditor on a schedule with a maturity date specified in written contractual terms. Law 122 stipulated that a depositor of gold, silver, or other chattel/movable property for safekeeping must present all articles and a signed contract of bailment to a notary before depositing the articles with a banker, and …

A cryptocurrency, crypto-currency, or crypto is a digital currency designed to work as a medium of exchange through a computer network that is not reliant on any central authority, such as a government or bank, to uphold or maintain it. It is a decentralized system for verifying that the parties to a transaction have the money they claim to have, eliminating the need for traditional ...

The Corpus Juris (or Iuris) Civilis ("Body of Civil Law") is the modern name for a collection of fundamental works in jurisprudence, issued from 529 to 534 by order of Justinian I, Byzantine Emperor.It is also sometimes referred to metonymically after one of its parts, the Code of Justinian.. The work as planned had three parts: the Code (Codex) is a compilation, by …

A plaster cast is a copy made in plaster of another 3-dimensional form. The original from which the cast is taken may be a sculpture, building, a face, a pregnant belly, a fossil or other remains such as fresh or fossilised footprints – particularly in palaeontology (a track of dinosaur footprints made in this way can be seen outside the Oxford University Museum of Natural History).

In ordinary language, a crime is an unlawful act punishable by a state or other authority. The term crime does not, in modern criminal law, have any simple and universally accepted definition, though statutory definitions have been provided for certain purposes. The most popular view is that crime is a category created by law; in other words, something is a crime if declared as …

A currency is a standardization of money in any form, in use or circulation as a medium of exchange, for example banknotes and coins. A more general definition is that a currency is a system of money in common use within a specific environment over time, especially for people in a nation state. Under this definition, the British Pound Sterling (£), euros (€), Japanese yen (¥), …