Hammurabi

If a man puts out the eye of another man, his eye shall be put out.

If a man strikes a free-born woman so that she loses her unborn child, he shall pay ten shekels for her loss.

If a physician makes a large incision with an operating knife and kills the patient, his hands shall be cut off.

If a man's wife is caught lying with another man, they shall bind them and throw them into the water.

If a man destroy the eye of another man, they shall destroy his eye.

If a member of the awilum class struck someone of equal status, they would pay one mina of silver. But if they struck a member of the mushkenum class, they would pay only ten shekels.

If a man takes a woman to wife, but has no intercourse with her, this woman is no wife to him.

Until the child married, the father had legal rights to use children for labor for himself or his debtors. Fathers could even choose to sell their children off.

Were a child to strike a father, the child's hands were cut off.

Incest was punishable by burning, adulterous murder by impaling.

Cutting off hands was another popular punishment if, for example, a son struck his father, or a field hand stole the crops they were tending.

If a woman neglected and left her husband, she might be cast into the water; if a husband neglected his wife, his only punishment was that she could leave him.

Men were also allowed to take another wife if their first wife bore them no children (though the law did stipulate that he must continue to care for her).

I was granted my rule by the gods 'to prevent the strong from oppressing the weak'.

If a builder builds a house for a man and does not make its construction firm, and the house which he has built collapses and causes the death of the owner of the house, that builder shall be put to death.

If it causes the death of the son of the owner of the house, they shall put to death the son of that builder.

If a physician operates on a man for a severe wound with a bronze lancet and causes the man's death, or opens an abscess in the eye for a man with a bronze lancet and destroys the man's eye, they shall cut off his hands.

If a barber, without the knowledge of the owner of a slave, cuts off the slave's 'mark,' he shall cut off the barber's fingers.

If a man strikes a free-born woman and causes her to abort her fetus, he shall pay ten shekels for her fetus.

If a man opens his ditch for irrigation, and the water overflows and floods his neighbor's field, he shall pay grain to his neighbor for his loss.