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Marriage
“If the adopted rejects his new parents then from a top of high tower.
he/she will be punished by cutting his/her Items from library of Ashour Banibal “if a
tongue” Hammurabi 192. woman hates or reject her husband she will
be thrown into the river”
The fifth demand: 3. If the woman is not fertile then “she will
be given silver equal to her dowry and
Pre requisites for divorce: compensated for items she brought with her
1. The man has to prove his wife’s misbehavior from her father’s house then divorced”
Item 141 Hammurabi law indicates “man can Hammurabi 138
divorce his wife with paying her anything”. 4. Sick wife not be divorced but to be given
He can marry another one, if he doesn’t all help and support; however, man can
divorce his first wife then she can stay at marry in this case.
home but like a servant.
2. If the woman refuse to sleep with her “If a man’s 1st wife becomes sick he can
husband marry another one but keep the first and
In this situation and according to Babylonian look after her” Hammurabi 148
and Assyrian societies the husband may
divorce his wife and throw her in the river or
Hammurabi 148
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