Book contents
- Ancient Legal Thought
- Ancient Legal Thought
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- General Introduction
- Maps
- Part A Ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt
- Section I Ancient Procedural Law
- Section II Freedom, Equality, and Legal Status
- Section III Crime and Punishment
- 8 Complicity and Conspiracy
- 9 Crime and Lex Talionis
- 10 Capital Punishment
- Section IV International Justice
- Part B Ancient Greece and China
- Part C India and the Roman Republic
- Part D Rabbinic Law and the Roman Empire
- Part E Final Thoughts
- Bibliography
- Index
9 - Crime and Lex Talionis
from Section III - Crime and Punishment
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 31 May 2019
- Ancient Legal Thought
- Ancient Legal Thought
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- General Introduction
- Maps
- Part A Ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt
- Section I Ancient Procedural Law
- Section II Freedom, Equality, and Legal Status
- Section III Crime and Punishment
- 8 Complicity and Conspiracy
- 9 Crime and Lex Talionis
- 10 Capital Punishment
- Section IV International Justice
- Part B Ancient Greece and China
- Part C India and the Roman Republic
- Part D Rabbinic Law and the Roman Empire
- Part E Final Thoughts
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
As we saw in an earlier chapter, many authors who have written on ancient law, until at least quite recently, have treated “primitive law” as being law in an early stage of development.
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- Ancient Legal ThoughtEquity, Justice, and Humaneness From Hammurabi and the Pharaohs to Justinian and the Talmud, pp. 150 - 168Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019