The following is a list of ancient legal codes in chronological order
The following is a list of ancient legal codes in chronological order

The following is a list of ancient legal codes in chronological order

The following is a list of ancient legal codes in chronological order:

Cuneiform law
Code of Urukagina (2380–2360 BCE)
Code of Ur-Nammu, king of Ur (c. 2050 BCE). Copies with slight variations found in Nippur, Sippar and Ur
Laws of Eshnunna (c. 1930 BCE)[1]
Codex of Lipit-Ishtar of Isin (c. 1870 BCE)[2]
Babylonian law
Code of Hammurabi (c. 1750 BCE in middle chronology)
Hittite laws, also known as the ‘Code of the Nesilim’ (developed c. 1650–1500 BCE, in effect until c. 1100 BCE)
Law of Moses / Torah (10th–6th century BCE)
Halakha (Jewish religious law, including biblical law and later talmudic and rabbinic law, as well as customs and traditions)
Assyrian law, also known as the Middle Assyrian Laws (MAL) or the Code of the Assyrians/Assura (developed c. 1450–1250 BCE, oldest extant copy c. 1075 BCE)[3]
Draconian constitution (late 7th century BCE)
Solonian Constitution (early 6th century BCE)
Gortyn code (5th century BCE)
Twelve Tables of Roman Law (451 BCE)
Edicts of Ashoka of Buddhist Law (269–236 BCE)
Law of Manu (c. 200 BCE)
Tirukkural, Ancient Tamil laws and ethics compiled by Thiruvalluvar (31 BCE–500 CE)
Corpus Juris Civilis (compiled 529–534 CE)
Code of Justinian
Digest or Pandects
Institutes of Justinian
Novellae Constitutiones
Sharia or Islamic Law (c. 570; Hanafi fiqh was not codified until the Ottoman Mecelle of the 1870s, the other schools were even later)
Traditional Chinese law
Tang Code (624 to 637)
Visigothic Code (642–653 CE
Gentoo Code (origins unknown; translated from Sankskrit into Persian, English, German and French in 1776–1778)
Early Irish law or Brehon Law (8th century CE)
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