Comparing Hammurabi code and roman law?

Answer 1

Like Justinian's code of Rome, The Code of Hammurabi distinguished between social classes. If someone was of a lower class, the punishment was harsher for them than that of a higher social class. Also, both law systems illustrated the "eye for an eye" policy. If someone was a victim of a crime, the person who committed the crime would have the same thing done to them, unless of course they were of different social classes in which case the punishment would be a proportion.

Answer 2

Surprisingly, despite being written in two different time periods, the Hammurabi's around 1772 BC, and the Roman's dating around 451 BC, the two laws share quite a few similarities. The most notable, and one quite different from today, is that both throw the death penalty around quite a bit. More importantly, however, both provided written legal procedure, at times where unwritten code was more common.

Answer 3

The code of Hammurabi-(Code of laws designed to keep social order)

This code revolved around the concept of social classes. For example,

"An eye for an eye" under this code means that if a noble were to get his eye poked out, the person who poked his eye out would then have her eye poked out. However, if a noble poked out a slaves eye, then the person would only have to pay a fine to the slaves owner due to the difference in social classes.

Justinian's Code-

Justinian lived in the Byzantine Empire. He developed a code of laws that reserved Greek and Roman culture, and kept a written record of them. Without those records, much of Greek and Roman Culture would have been lost. Remember though, it was also the Rosetta Stone that helped decode those written records. Without either of those records, history would be a jumbled up list of words, unrecognizable to the human eye.

Answer 4

The Hammurabi code is almost like laws in a way. The code is just like a law because they protect it just like you have to obey the laws