Allowing for someone to kill a potential robber with impunity, it allowed for lower class debtors to be made slaves.
Under it, acts of manslaughter committed outside the capital were heard at a court in Phreatto. Establishing the state as the sole legal purveyor of justice, it had a provision creating a council of fifty-one judges which was to hear cases involving bloodshed. One of the key principles behind it was the idea of murder being a crime against all things of religious significance. Allowing for someone to kill a potential robber with impunity, it allowed for lower class debtors to be made slaves. At its outset, those who committed retributional murder were to be exiled. For 10 points, name this code of laws supposedly written in blood, written by a Greek statesman noted for his harsh policies.
Under it, acts of manslaughter committed outside the capital were heard at a court in Phreatto.
{Draconian} Code