Question

Hammurabi's Code What dose, "If any one take over a field to till it, and obtain no harvest therefrom, it must be proved that he did no work on the field, and he must deliver grain, just as his neighbor raised, to the owner of the field." mean? I need help summerizing.

Answer 1

All this is really saying is that people would often try to get away with doing no work on a field and instead blame either the land or the weather. This law is saying that they must prove they did work.