Hammurabi

If a man accuses another man and brings a charge of murder against him, but cannot prove it, his accuser shall be put to death.

If a man has harbored a runaway slave, male or female, in his house and has not brought him forth at the summons of the public crier, the owner of the house shall be put to death.

If a man steals an ox, a sheep, an ass, a pig, or a boat, from a god or the palace, he shall pay thirtyfold. If he steals from a private citizen, he shall pay tenfold. If the thief has nothing with which to pay, he shall be put to death.

If any one take over a waste-lying field to make it arable, but is lazy, and does not make it arable, he shall plow the fallow field in the fourth year, harrow it and till it, and give it back to its owner, and for each ten gan (a measure of area) ten gur of grain shall be paid.

If a tavern-keeper (feminine) does not accept corn according to gross weight in payment of drink, but takes money, and the price of the drink is less than that of the corn, she shall be convicted and thrown into the water.

If any one strike the body of a man higher in rank than he, he shall receive sixty blows with an ox-whip in public.

If the slave of a freed man strike the body of a freed man, his ear shall be cut off.

If a physician make a large incision with the operating knife, and kill him, or open a tumor with the operating knife, and cut out the eye, his hands shall be cut off.

If a barber, without the knowledge of his master, cut the sign of a slave on a slave not to be sold, the hands of this barber shall be cut off.

If any one deceive a barber, and have him mark a slave not for sale with the sign of a slave, he shall be put to death, and buried in his house. The barber shall swear: “I did not mark him wittingly,” and shall be guiltless.

If the 'finger is pointed' at a man's wife about another man, but she is not caught sleeping with the other man, she shall jump into the river for her husband.

If a man betroth a girl to his son, and his son have intercourse with her, but he (the father) afterward defile her, and be surprised, then he shall be bound and cast into the water (drowned).

If any one ensnare another, putting a ban upon him, but he can not prove it, then he that ensnared him shall be put to death.

If any one bring an accusation against a man, and the accused go to the river and leap into the river, if he sink in the river his accuser shall take possession of his house. But if the river prove that the accused is not guilty, and he escape unhurt, then he who had brought the accusation shall be put to death, while he who leaped into the river shall take possession of the house that had belonged to his accuser.

If a man's wife be surprised (in flagrante delicto) with another man, both shall be tied and thrown into the water, but the husband may pardon his wife and the king his slaves.

If a builder build a house for some one, and does not construct it properly, and the house which he built fall in and kill its owner, then that builder shall be put to death.

If a son strikes his father, his hand shall be cut off.

If a free person's slave strikes the cheek of another free person, the ear of the slave shall be cut off.

If a slave says to the master, 'you are not my master,' the master shall cut off the slave's ear.