List of ancient legal codes

The

(200 BC).

The following is a list of

legal codes in chronological order:

• Cuneiform law
  • The code of law found at Ebla (2400 BC)
  • Code of Urukagina (2380–2360 BC)
  • Code of Ur-Nammu, king of Ur (c. 2050 BC). Copies with slight variations found in Nippur, Sippar and Ur
  • Laws of Eshnunna (c. 1930 BC)^[2]
  • Code of Lipit-Ishtar (c. 1870 BC)^[3]
  • Babylonian law
    • middle chronology
      )
  • Hittite laws, also known as the 'Code of the Nesilim' (developed c. 1650–1500 BC, in effect until c. 1100 BC)
• Law of Moses / Torah (10th–6th century BC)
  • rabbinic law
    , as well as customs and traditions)
• Assyrian law, also known as the Middle Assyrian Laws (MAL) or the Code of the Assyrians/Assura (developed c. 1450–1250 BC, oldest extant copy c. 1075 BC)^[4]
• Draconian constitution (late 7th century BC)
• Solonian Constitution
  (early 6th century BC)
• Gortyn code (5th century BC)
• Roman Law
  (451 BC)
• Buddhist Law
  (269–236 BC)
• Law of Manu
  (c. 200 BC)
• Tamil laws and ethics compiled by Thiruvalluvar
  (31 BC–500 AD)
• Corpus Juris Civilis (compiled 529–534 AD)
  • Code of Justinian
  • Digest or Pandects
  • Institutes of Justinian
  • Novellae Constitutiones
• Hanafi fiqh was not codified until the Ottoman Mecelle
  of the 1870s, the other schools were even later)
• Traditional Chinese law
  • Tang Code (624 to 637)
• Visigothic Code (642–653 AD
• Gentoo Code (origins unknown; translated from Sankskrit into Persian, English, German and French in 1776–1778)
• Early Irish law or Brehon Law (8th century AD)

See also

• Legal culture

References