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Quotation from The Code of Hammurabi by Hammurabi of Babylon
“If a builder has built a house for a man and has not made strong his work, and the house he built has fallen, and he has caused the death of the owner of the house, that builder shall be put to death.”
The Code of Hammurabi, Section 229, trans. C. H. W. Johns (1903)
Strict responsibility for a builder whose bad work kills the owner.
Citation: "If a builder has built a house for a man and has not made strong his work, and the house he built has fallen, and he has caused the death of the owner of the house, that builder shall be put to death." — Hammurabi of Babylon, The Code of Hammurabi, Section 229, trans. C. H. W. Johns (1903). (id code-of-hammurabi-q2)
