Ancient laws evolved as a necessary means by which to regulate society's behavior. What had typically been left up to the whims of each individual to handle on his own needed to be a product of a fair and sensible legal procedure. It can be argued that there was a great need for this because at the time there was no sense of conformity when it came to retribution. In the tribal village, for example, …showed first 75 words of 1464 total…

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