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Divorce in Ancient Babylon(From the Code of Hammurabi)
Hammurabi
Hammurabi
(fl. 17921750 B.C.)A
§ 142: If a woman shall hate her husband and say: “Thou shalt not have me,” they shall inquire into her antecedents for her defects.… If she have not been a careful mistress, have gadded about, have neglected her house and have belittled her husband, they shall throw that woman into the water.