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   NEAL | Jan 27, 1999 02:38pm | #1

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   WELL IT IS UNDERSTANDABLE AND CLEAR, BUT I'M NOT SURE IF I LIKE THE SET PRICING DEAL. IT WOULD HELP TO KEEP ANY DIRT BAGS OUT OF THE SYSTEM!

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   RKELLY | Jan 30, 1999 10:08am | #2

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   I am going to post this building code in our shop in an obvious place.

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   Guest_ | Jan 31, 1999 04:02am | #3

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   If I were paid today two silver shekels for a project and then offered them at auction I wonder what tax problem I would be contiplating.

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   Guest_ | Feb 07, 1999 04:18am | #4

   *Hi Ron.I found your information repeated in book WHY BUILDINGS FALL DOWN by Mattys Levy and Mario Salvadori, on pages 242-243.The authors state that Hammurabi was the sixth king of Babylonia (1792-50 BC)After they repeat what you have said, it goes on as follows: ..."These regulations fall under the category that the Greek philosopher Aristotle in 340 BC called the 'natural law' or that derived from custom or precedent. Such rules of custom were the basis for the first Roman law, as set down in the Twelve Tables in 450 BC. Aristotle identified the second part of the law as that which is man-made or legislated. The most important event in the codification of laws was led by Justinian and completed in 535. He collected new and old laws and synthesized them into a 150,000-line code (Codex Constitutionum), defining the four areas of law: those governing the rights of people, the treatment of property and possession, obligations under contract and tort (under which disputes concerning structural failures are dealt with), and succession. Because of the extent of the Roman Empire, Roman law was the rule in much of the Western world except, as we shall see, in England. The Code Napoleon, developed in 1804 under the leadership of the French emperor, was derived from and represented a modernized version of Roman law. Because of the wide-ranging imperial conquests of Napoleon, his code became widely accepted throughout continental Europe. Separated from the rest of Europe by the Channel, a barrier that helped maintain its identity, England developed its own approach to the law. The Magna Carta, written in 1215, established the foundation of English constitutional liberty. Since that time common law evolved, based first on custom (Aristotle's natural law) and later on precedent developed through decisions in prior cases. This common law crossed the Atlantic with the first settlers and became the basis of law in the United States."...

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   Guest_ | Feb 08, 1999 03:02pm | #5

   *..if I might add to this, Luke 14:28-29 gives advice on costing a project." For example, who of you that wants to build a tower does not first sit down and calculate the expense, to see if he has enough to complete it? Otherwise he might lay its foundation but not be able to finish it, and all the onlookers might start to ridicule him."

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   Guest_ | Feb 08, 1999 08:55pm | #6

   *updated to the 90's: "...and all the Breaktime contributors might start to flame him." :)

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   Guest_ | Feb 11, 1999 07:48am | #8

   *A very appropriate post, mark.And that verse is worth reading on further, I might add.

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   Guest_ | Feb 11, 1999 07:48am | #7

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   This is supposedly the first building code known to man. It's engraved on a column in the Louvre in Paris. It's called the Code of Hammurabi, and was ritten around 1950BC.

   If a contractor builds a house for a man, this man shall give the contractor 2 shekels of silver as recompense.

   If a contractor builds a house for a man and does not build it strong enough, and the house which he builds collapses and causes the death of the house owner, then the contractor shall be put to death.

   If it causes the death of the son of the owner, then the son of the contractor shall be put to death.

   If it causes the death of the slave of the owner, then he shall give the owner a slave of equal value.

   If it destroys property, he shall replace what has been destroyed and because he did not build the
   house strong enough and it collapsed, he shall rebuild the house at his own expense.

   If a contractor builds a house for a man and does not build it so that it stands ordinary wear and a wall collapses, then he shall reinforce the wall at his own expense.