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The Code prints river-ordeal clauses as completed judicial-risk headings

Dated 1 April 1755: The Code prints river-ordeal clauses as completed judicial-risk headings. In the causal graph this event weakens Judicial independence erosion (court capture), a driver that strengthens Rule of Law Gap from the Highest Governance Score — an improving welfare path.

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Ordeal as inscribed. Not a unique drowning series. Hammurabi did not operate this later page as a civil-registry autograph.

Context

Shared institutions, unnamed crews, and later editors remain in the record and do not erase a documented heading.

Hammurabi Shared work with other named actors remains in the record.

Hammurabi’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below.

Old Babylonian chronology is reconstructed (Middle Chronology often used).

Why it matters

Ordeal as inscribed. Not a unique drowning series.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Hammurabi

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.28 · verified

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Avalon Project — later English Code of HammurabiYale Law School · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Britannica — Code of HammurabiEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Hammurabi did not file a later UNESCO form, a later Loeb colophon, or a later museum label as a personal act.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorHammurabi
  2. contributed toFactThe Code prints river-ordeal clauses as completed judicial-risk headings
  3. weakensDriverJudicial independence erosion (court capture)
  4. strengthensIndicatorRule of Law Gap from the Highest Governance Score

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Factrail. (2026). The Code prints river-ordeal clauses as completed judicial-risk headings. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/ham-ordeal-clauses

https://factrail.ai/facts/ham-ordeal-clauses

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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