As strange as it sounds eye gouging was a common crime in pre-20th century America. It also included biting off ears and noses. It was finally made illegal with punishment that included jail time.
Crime doesn't pay. Just ask Mike Tyson.
The "eye for an eye" law originated in the Code of Hammurabi in ancient Mesopotamia around 1750 BC. It was a principle of justice that prescribed punishment in kind for a wrongdoing.
eye for an eye
The phrase "jurisprudence is the eye of law" is often attributed to Sir Edward Coke, an English jurist from the 16th and 17th centuries. It highlights the importance of legal theory and philosophy in interpreting and understanding the law. Just as the eye provides vision and clarity, jurisprudence helps illuminate the principles and reasoning behind legal decisions.
Jurisprudence is the eye of law because it is innovation of the legal invention for protection of human behaviour, which maintain intense relationship for advancement of mankind, thus the jurisprudence is the wisdom of law, which is the ultimate purpose in pursuit of the advancement of Human conduct, there should be the attempt to change the law within a reasonable living stream, that is why it is said that Jurisprudence is the eye of law.
In the Eye of the Law - 1914 was released on: USA: 2 April 1914
The cast of In the Eye of the Law - 1914 includes: Harry Carter Allan Forrest
It was a Hammarabi. He said "An eye for an eye a tooth for a tooth".
make sure that everyone is following the law that has just been made.
Even before Hebrew law, the oldest known reference to "an eye for an eye" is in Hammurabi's Code of Laws, circa 1760 B.C. (Hammurabi ruled from the years 1792 - 1750 B.C. in Mesopotamia.)
I think it is 5,000
it cover family law
because the hammurabbi code taught the law ana eye for an eye. which pratices the law of repiprosity for every action there is a similar action to be done contravene.