Comment by sn41
5 years ago
Some issues I think I can see:
1. The above law makes it clear that it is only a man who can accuse the wife of another man of adultery. Your code seems to permit other genders as accusers.
2. Similarly it seems only the wife needed to face the river ordeal. (i.e. every person subject to the river ordeal needs to have a husband) Your code seems to allow the husband to subjected to the river ordeal.
Sorry for nitpicking... it was not to attack your attempt at the code, but the entire idea of formalizing the law in this manner might be very tedious, and less precise in practice than natural language.
np, it's good on all points. So we need gender defined. And yes, it's tedious. Which is why IANAL :)
[but p.s.] reviewing the laws in wiki, the only instance of a 'female voice' is when a slave girl puts down her mistress (and gets the Sumerian equivalent of soap in mouth). So, putting my Sumerian lawyer hat on, 'context' here implicitly affords 'legal voice' only to men. Women were mute as far as the law was concerned. So a Sumerian AI judge using Catala would have no problem with my code :)