Read the following passage from the Code of Hammurabi. Based on these laws, what would most likely happen to a man who whips a p
erson considered a "free man"? 198. If [a man] put out the eye of a freed man, or break the bone of a freed man, he shall pay one gold mina.
199. If [a man] put out the eye of a man's slave, or break the bone of a man's slave, he shall pay one-half of its value.
200. If a man knock out the teeth of his equal, his teeth shall be knocked out a tooth for a tooth.1
1. The Code of Hammurabi, translated by L.W. King, 1915. Yale University: The Avalon Project, last modified 2008, http://avalon.law.yale.edu/ancient/hamframe.asp. Courtesy of Yale Law School's Lillian Goldman Law Library.
A. He would be forced to give the man his own horse.
B. He would be whipped.
C. His own horse would be whipped.
D. He would pay a fine.
It says in article 198 that hurting a freed man would result in paying a fine. Whipping and things like that happened for other people in the situation or if the man paying the fine did not have the money to pay a fine. Giving own horse is not related to the articles in question.
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