Talk:List of ancient legal codes

a thought

Maybe these codes should by layed out in the order that they occured. Sorry about grammer & the such I am typing this on an iPod —Preceding unsigned comment added by Krj373 (talk • contribs) 08:37, 15 August 2009 (UTC)

Yes chronological order would be way more useful. Shall I go ahead and do that? Bhny (talk) 20:43, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

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Sharia and Halacha

Neither of these are a single code but legal systems, as varied and extensive as secular ones, and they are living systems, sages are still making new Halacha and new Sharia on a daily basis. In this regard they are also not really ancient, only having ancient roots. Maybe their fundamental documents could be added, depending on the definition of ancient.--Nngnna (talk) 11:14, 18 February 2020 (UTC)

Yassa Law, Possible Additions and Defined Parameter of the page

I was wondering if Mongol Yassa Law would count as an addition to this page.

However I see two potential issues with this. First, it dates to the 13th century meaning it could not be classed as ancient. I say this in reference to the Wikipedia article “ancient history” that defines the definition of ancient between 3000BC-500AD.

Secondly, would Yassa be defined as a Legal Code? I’m having a little trouble defining the difference between the Ancient Legal Codes mentioned and Customary Legal Systems listed on the Wikipedia article “Customary Law”

For example “Early Irish Law” is present on both pages.

I’m curious if Customary Legal Codes (like those on the Customary Law page” with extended histories (such as Albanian Kanun) that trace quite a lengthy history, should be included?

Perhaps there should be a mention of Customary Law to navigate to from this page?

Another aspect is whether or not the code is still practiced or not.

This may be an important distinction between the likes of Early Irish Law which is no longer practiced versus Albanian Kanun which is. With this question in mind would Yassa be worthy of inclusion to this Ancient Legal Codes list due to it being a historic legal code and not a contemporary one?

Perhaps its historic relevance, being the legal code of the Mongol Empire would be cause for its inclusion?

It could be that more articles need to be created to list legal codes that fall between the gaps of both Customary Legal Systems and Ancient Legal Code.

It could be said that Yassa should be included in the category section of “Category:Medieval legal codes” but considering the definition of medieval is 500-1500AD this could mean clipping off a few of the last entries on this article. Ghoulgamesh (talk) 14:00, 27 August 2024 (UTC)