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A Comparison and Contrast of Australian and Babylonian Law.
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The Macquarie Dictionary defines 'law' as "the principals and regulations emanating from a government and applicable to a people." This is a fairly broad definition, which can be applied to most legal systems, contemporary and ancient, as it describes the ways in which a legal system will direct and reflect a society and its values. For the purpose of this assessment, I am going to compare and explore the Australian legal system to that of the ancient Babylonian legal system. The choice of Babylonian law is significant as Babylonian legal works greatly affected Jewish and Roman thoughts, which in turn greatly influenced modern law.
The Babylonian legal system was based upon a set of codes, drawn up by the Babylonian king, Hammurabi.
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