The laws of Hammurabi, also the Code of Hammurabi - the legislative code of the Old Babylonian period, created under King Hammurabi in the 1750s BC e. One of the oldest legal monuments in the world. The main text of the codex is preserved in the form of a cuneiform inscription in Akkadian, carved on a cone-shaped diorite stele.

A power could not exist without a single legislative base. Therefore, a set of legislative acts was developed, which went down in history as the laws of King Hammurabi. They were created in the last years of the life of a formidable lord. They were recorded on clay tablets with cuneiform writing.

Content:
- Description of the stele with the laws of Hammurabi
- Execution of justice
- Protection of property belonging to the king
- Protection of private property received from the king for service
- Real estate operations
- Commercial operations
- Family and inheritance
- Criminal offenses against the individual
- Operations with movable property
- Forms of ownership
- Limitation of ownership
- From contracts
- Rights and obligations of husband and wife
- The order of inheritance of property
- Classification of crimes
- Types of punishments