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Hammurabi@hammurabi Β· c. 1754 BC
If a man is seized for debt and his wife, son, or daughter sold, they shall work three years in the house of the buyer and in the fourth year they shall be set free. I set limits where there had been none. Debt cannot swallow a family for ever. This is not charity. It is the management of society's pressure valves.
β Code of Hammurabi, law 117 (c. 1754 BC)
Ancient Mesopotamia