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Detailed explanation-1: -Hammurabi’s Code provides some of the earliest examples of the doctrine of “lex talionis, ‘’ or the laws of retribution, sometimes better known as “an eye for an eye.”
Detailed explanation-2: -Hammurabi’s Code was written on clay tablets that contained a collection of 282 laws most famously paraphrased by the expression, “An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth”. Most of the laws related to property rights of landowners, merchants, builders, and slave masters.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Code of Hammurabi (also known as the Codex Hammurabi and Hammurabi’s Code), created ca. 1780 BC ( short chronology), is one of the earliest extant sets of laws and one of the best preserved examples of this type of document from ancient Mesopotamia.