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Base your answers to questions 8 and 9 on the passage below and your knowledge of social studies.

"If a seignior (noble) has knocked out the tooth of a seignior of his own rank, they shall knock out his tooth. But if he
has knocked out a commoner's tooth, he shall pay one-third mina of silver."
- Code of Hammurabi excerpt from the NYS Global History and Geography Regents Exam
What type of source does this quote come from?
(1) Letter
(2) Legal code
(3) Newspaper article
(4) Oral history

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Play this game to review History. “If a seignior (noble) has knocked out the tooth of a seignior of his own rank, they shall knock out his tooth.
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