The old Iraqi laws were concerned with organizing family relationships by drafting legal rules that define the behavior of individuals among themselves. These rules set limits that the individual cannot cross, especially with regard to organizing the marital relationship because of the sanctity of this relationship in the eyes of the law.
The legislator worked in his law, especially the Hammurabi law, to find legal solutions that are commensurate with the nature of social life at the time in order to achieve security and reassurance and determine in the event of dissolution or idleness in society, foremost among which is the crime of adultery, and the laws imposed penalties against the adulterer and adulterer, which reflects the legislator's desire to resist vice.