Studies On Real Estate Contracts From Sippar In Old Babylon Period

Nowadays, owing to the lack of Owing to the lack of primal materials and the hindranceof ancient language, the research on the rent ratio of field-lease hasn't got creationaryachievement. The code of Hammurabi is the important material for Chinese scholarsresearching the Old Babylonian social economy. According to the previsions of the code ofHammurabi, we get a little knowledge of the field sale and rent, but for the complex realestate matter, we can not get much only according to the code of Hammurabi. The field saleand rent's formulary, the field size, the field price, the field rent, the seller and buyer, therenter and the lessee and so on, are not clarity. The research on the house sale and rent isalmost blank. Fortunately, Luc Dekiere has published "Old Babylonian Real Documents fromSippar in the British Museum, MHET Vol. II, part1-6 during 1994-1997. Luc Dekiere's sixbooks give us abundant primal material for researching the real estate of Old Babylon period.This dissertation is intent on making primary research on the real estate according to the 660contracts in the Luc Dekiere six books in order that we can know more things about theprivate ecnomic and commercial activities, the economice state , the produce relations, theclass relations, the nature of Old Babylon society and so on. This dissertation contains six chapters besides the introduction and conclusion. Theintroduction involves the development state of Assyriology, and tells the basic material andthe season for this dissertation topic. Chapter 1 involves the excavation of ancient Sippar, and the history of Sippar fromancient time to Old Babylon. Chapter 2 involves the field sale contracts and field exchange contracts. Chapter 3 involves the house sale contracts. The chapter analyses detailedly theformulary of house sale contracts, the size of house and the price of house. Chapter 4 involves the orchard sale contracts and the ditch sale contracts. Chapter 5 involves the field lease contracts. The lease of field developed fully in themiddle and late period of Old Babylon. The field rent contracts are most in the real estatecontracts. The chapter analyses fully the formulary of field lease, the rent type, the rent ratioand partnership tenancy of field. Chapter 6 involves the some types of house rent contracts. In the conclusion part, the author makes some conclusions according to the analysis ofthe real estate contracts.