This group gathers the constitutions, charters and statutes of antiquity and the early Middle Ages, before the year 1000. These are the constitutions, charters, edicts, statutes and codes by which rulers and assemblies set down the law of a realm. A document belongs here when its cited article gives a date inside this span for the document's own signing, adoption, issue or composition. It excludes documents dated earlier or later, which sit in the neighboring period groups of the same kind. Antiquity and the early Middle Ages run from the earliest written records to the year 999, a span of pharaohs, Mesopotamian kings, Greek and Roman law and the first Christian emperors.
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Wikipedia: Code of Ur-Nammu
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The preface directly credits the laws to king Ur-Nammu of Ur (2112-2095 BC).
Wikipedia: Liber Pontificalis
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The original publication of the Liber Pontificalis stopped with Pope Adrian II (867-872) or Pope Stephen V (885-891)
Twelve Tables (Wikipedia)
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Formally promulgated in 449 BC, the Tables consolidated earlier traditions into an enduring set of laws.
Edict of Milan (Wikipedia)
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The Edict of Milan (Latin: Edictum Mediolanense; Greek: Διάταγμα τῶν Μεδιολάνων, Diatagma tōn Mediolanōn) was the 13 February 313 AD agreement to treat Christians benevolently within the Roman Empire.
Corpus Juris Civilis (Wikipedia)
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The Corpus Juris (or Iuris) Civilis ("Body of Civil Law") is the modern name for a collection of fundamental works in jurisprudence, enacted from 529 to 534 by order of Roman Emperor Justinian I.
Code of Hammurabi, Wikipedia
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The Code of Hammurabi is a Babylonian legal text composed c. 1753 BC.
Manusmriti, Wikipedia
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The metrical text is in Sanskrit, is dated to the 2nd century BCE to 2nd century CE, and presents itself as a discourse given by Manu (Svayambhuva) and Bhrigu on dharma topics such as duties, rights, laws, conduct, varna, gender norms, and virtues.
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