Amnesty in ancient Iraqi laws

Abstract

The research deals with presentation and analysis of amnesty in the old Iraqi laws, it is divided into five main axes with a preface in which the researcher talked about amnesty, linguistically, idiomatically and its meaning starting from the ancient Iraq. The first section included an overview of the old Iraqi laws, while the other four sections dealt with various issues in which the laws legislated amnesty.                                                                     

   From the entire research, it became clear that the old Iraqi laws included amnesty regarding the issue of honor, for example the married woman and the man who cheated on her husband with him, noting that the old Iraqi legislator suspended its legislation by pardoning both parties with the husband’s desire to forgive his cheating wife, and he was obligated to pardon the man alone if he did not know That the woman with whom he committed adultery is married, or if he had sexual intercourse with her as a result of her seducing him. The laws also included in its pardon those married without legal controls, especially men, and those who lose the money of others against their will, and those who are involved in transgressing them as well. Hammurabi's law was unique in granting amnesty to deserters from military service, and to a son who does something that offends his father. The intermediate Assyrian laws legislated for a man to pardon his wife, who goes to sleep in the house of a married woman without his knowledge, and for the woman who took her and her husband as well.