No doubt the reason demands unity, and nature variety, and both legislations take man in hand.
The twolegislations ought to be completely independent, and yet mutually complementary.
That there exist similarities between the legislations of the two nations even a superficial reading will show.
But this instinct does not account for the obvious differences between the Hebrew Decalogue as a whole and the legislations of other peoples.
Those who admit some relation between the two legislations are not in agreement as to the nature of the connection.
The two legislationsought to be completely independent and yet mutually complementary.
Treated in this way, the history of Roman law becomes, as it were, instantly transformed into a history of many different legislations following one another at intervals.
It may be hoped that this side issue has lost its interest, and that a hearing may now be obtained for a simple attempt to use the two legislations for mutual understanding.
Had both legislations hit upon a three years' term, we might have racked our brains to find a reason why in the world three years should have commended itself to both lawgivers.
It is not the large stock of common matter in the two legislations about a hostage for debt but the disguised yet undeniable adaptation which seems so significant.
Many reasons would suggest the likelihood that much similarity would be observed between two early legislations both Semitic in complexion.
Both legislations further take into account the possible death of the woman herself.
An apparently strong point has been made against any connexion between the legislations on the score of philology.
Briefly stated, the view thus taken is that the Code of Hammurabi belongs to the same group of ancient legislations as the Hebrew, and that both are compromises between two distinct types of law.
There is nothing here to show that the law was not exactly the same for both legislations for the same cases.
If we follow the critical division of the material we find that we are left with a variety of legislations of very different dates and qualities well shown in The Hexateuch, or in articles in Dict.
In both legislations man-stealing is reckoned with murder and punished by death.
In the case of negligence or theft of a deposit both legislations require restitution.
This was the culmination of a long series of the most infamous legislations which ever disgraced a statute book.
Understanding and Reason exercise, therefore, two distinct legislations in regard to one and the same territory of experience, without prejudice to each other.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "legislations" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
