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The Code of Hammurabi

section 131 · 97 of 248

The Code of Hammurabi

English, translated by C. H. W. Johns — Johns, The Oldest Code of Laws in the World, Edinburgh, 1903

If the wife of a man her husband has accused her, and she has not been caught in lying with another male, she shall swear by God and shall return to her house.